Restores an SAP IQ database backup from one or more archive devices.
Syntax 1
RESTORE DATABASE '<db_file>' [MULTIPLEX]'<archive_device>' [ FROM '<archive_device>' ]… … [ CATALOG ONLY ] … [ KEY <key_spec> ] … [ [ RENAME <logical-dbfile-name> TO '<new-dbspace-path>']... | VERIFY [ COMPATIBLE ] ]
Syntax 2
RESTORE DATABASE '<database-name>' [ restore-option ...] FROM '<archive_device>' <...> restore-option [MULTIPLEX] READONLY <dbspace-or-file> [, … ] KEY <key_spec> RENAME <file-name> TO <new-file-path> ...
Syntax 3
RESTORE DATABASE '< db_file >' [ FROM '< file-name >' <...> [ USING LOG PATH ' directory, [...]] RECOVER UNTIL [ TIMESTAMP <timestamptz> | OFFSET <log-offset> ] KEY <key_spec> [ VERIFY COMPATIBLE ]
relative or absolute path of the database to be restored. Can be the original location, or a new location for the catalog store file.
quoted string including mixed cases, numbers, letters, and special characters. It might be necessary to protect the key from interpretation or alteration by the command shell.
specifies the name of the <archive_device> from which you are restoring, delimited with single quotation marks. If you are using multiple archive devices, specify them using separate FROM clauses. A comma-separated list is not allowed. Archive devices must be distinct. The number of FROM clauses determines the amount of parallelism SAP IQ attempts with regard to input devices.
The backup/restore API DLL implementation lets you specify arguments to pass to the DLL when opening an archive device. For third-party implementations, the <archive_device> string has this format:
'DLLidentifier::vendor_specific_information'
A specific example is:
'spsc::workorder=12;volname=ASD002'
The <archive_device> string length can be up to 1023 bytes. The <DLLidentifier> portion must be 1 to 30 bytes in length and can contain only alphanumeric and underscore characters. The <vendor_specific_information> portion of the string is passed to the third-party implementation without checking its contents.
For the SAP IQ implementation of the backup/restore API, you need not specify information other than the tape device name or file name. However, if you use disk devices, you must specify the same number of archive devices on the restore as given on the backup; otherwise, you may have a different number of restoration devices than the number used to perform the backup. A specific example of an archive device for the SAP IQ API DLL that specifies a nonrewinding tape device for a UNIX system is:
'/dev/rmt/0n'
USING LOG PATH ' <directory 1>, <directory 2>, ... '
RECOVER UNTIL [ TIMESTAMP <timestamptz> | OFFSET <log-offset> ]
A dbspace that you create after enabling point-in-time recovery may only be recorded in the point-in-time recovery log. If this is the case, you cannot rename the dbspace during a RESTORE DATABASE RECOVER UNTIL operation.
For RLV-enabled databases, attempting point in time recovery to a point beyond the last log backup causes the RESTORE DATABASE RECOVER UNTIL operation to fail. Always restore the RV dbspace files of the old database in the right location manually before you run the point-in-time recovery, so that the correct version of the RLV log is used and the data recovered is correct.
restore one or more SAP IQ database files to a new location. Specify each <dbspace-name> you are moving as it appears in the SYSFILE table. Specify <new-dbspace-path> as the new raw partition, or the new full or relative path name, for that dbspace.
If relative paths were used to create the database files, the files are restored by default relative to the catalog store file (the SYSTEM dbspace), and a rename clause is not required. If absolute paths were used to create the database files and a rename clause is not specified for a file, it is restored to its original location.
Relative path names in the RENAME clause work as they do when you create a database or dbspace: the main IQ store dbspace, temporary store dbspaces, and Message Log are restored relative to the location of db_file (the catalog store); user-created IQ store dbspaces are restored relative to the directory that holds the main IQ dbspace.
Do not use the RENAME clause to move the SYSTEM dbspace, which holds the catalog store. To move the catalog store, and any files created relative to it and not specified in a RENAME clause, specify a new location in the <db_file> parameter.
You cannot use the RENAME clause with the VERIFY clause; an error is reported.
The backup verification process can run on a different host than the database host. You must have the BACKUP DATABASE system privilege to run RESTORE DATABASE VERIFY.
If the COMPATIBLE clause is specified with VERIFY, the compatibility of an incremental archive is checked with the existing database files. If the database files do not exist on the system on which RESTORE DATABASE…VERIFY COMPATIBLE is invoked, an error is returned. If COMPATIBLE is specified while verifying a full backup, the keyword is ignored; no compatibility checks need to be made while restoring a full backup.
You must have the database and log files (.db and .log) to validate the backup of a read-only dbspace within a full backup. If you do not have these files, validate the entire backup by running RESTORE DATABASE…VERIFY without the READONLY <dbspace> clause.
The verification of a backup archive is different than the database consistency checker (DBCC) verify mode (sp_iqcheckdb ‘verify...’). RESTORE DATABASE VERIFY validates the consistency of the backup archive to be sure it can be restored, whereas DBCC validates the consistency of the database data.
Run sp_iqcheckdb ‘verify...’ before taking a backup. If an inconsistent database is backed up, then restored from the same backup archive, the data continues to be in an inconsistent state, even if RESTORE DATABASE VERIFY reports a successful validation.
RESTORE DATABASE 'iqdemo' FROM '/dev/rmt/0' FROM '/dev/rmt/2'
RESTORE DATABASE 'marvin' FROM 'marvin_bkup_file1' FROM 'marvin_bkup_file2' FROM 'marvin_bkup_file3' KEY 'is!seCret'
Given this BACKUP DATABASE statement:
BACKUP DATABASE READONLY DBSPACES iq_main TO '/system1/IQ16/demo/backup/iqmain'
The dbspace iq_main can be restored using either of these RESTORE DATABASE statements:
RESTORE DATABASE 'iqdemo' READONLY DBSPACES iq_main FROM '/system1/IQ16/demo/backup/iqmain'
or
RESTORE DATABASE 'iqdemo' FROM '/system1/IQ16/demo/backup/iqmain'
A selective backup backs up either all READWRITE dbspaces or specific read-only dbspaces or dbfiles. Selective backups are a subtype of either full or incremental backups.
RESTORE DATABASE <database_name.db> FROM '/sys1/dump/dmp1' FROM '/sys1/dump/dmp2' VERIFY
When you use validate, specify a different database name to avoid Database name not unique errors. If the original database is iqdemo.db, for example, use iq_demo_new.db instead:
RESTORE DATABASE iqdemo_new.db FROM iqdemo.bkp VERIFY
Point in time recovery using Point in time recovery logs only:
// enable Point in time recovery SET OPTION PUBLIC.IQ_POINT_IN_TIME_RECOVERY_LOGGING = 'ON ALTER DBSPACE IQ_SYSTEM_LOG RENAME '/demo/pitrLog/PITRLOG' BACKUP DATABASE FULL to '/demo/dataBackup/FULL1' // perform some DDL/DML operations CREATE TABLE T1 ( ID INT ) INSERT INTO T1 VALUES (1) // record timestamp TS1 / OFFSET OFS1 TS1 : select getdate() OFS1 : select db_property('LastCommitRedoPos') // perform DDL/ DML operations CREATE TABLE T2 ( ID INT ) INSERT INTO T2 VALUES (1) // record timestamp TS2 / OFFSET OFS2 TS2 : select getdate() OFS2 : select db_property('LastCommitRedoPos') // restore the database to point in time TS1 / OFS1 // shutdown the database // start a utility server // drop the database RESTORE DATABASE 'iqdemo' FROM '/demo/dataBackup/FULL1' RECOVER UNTIL TIMESTAMP '<TS1>' USING LOG PATH '/demo/pitrLog/' // OR RESTORE DATABASE 'iqdemo' FROM '/demo/dataBackup/FULL1' RECOVER UNTIL OFFSET <OFS1> USING LOG PATH '/demo/pitrLog/'
Point-in-time recovery using point-in-time recovery logs and point-in-time recovery log backup archives:
// enable point-in-time recovery SET OPTION PUBLIC.IQ_POINT_IN_TIME_RECOVERY_LOGGING = 'ON ALTER DBSPACE IQ_SYSTEM_LOG RENAME '/demo/pitrLog/PITRLOG' BACKUP DATABASE FULL to '/demo/dataBackup/FULL1' // perform DDL / DML operations CREATE TABLE T1 ( ID INT ) INSERT INTO T1 VALUES (1) RECORD TIME STAMP TS1 / OFFSET OFS1 TS1 : select getdate() OFS1 : select db_property('LastCommitRedoPos') // perform DDL / DML operations CREATE TABLE T2 ( ID INT ) INSERT INTO T2 VALUES (1) RECORD TIME STAMP TS2 / OFFSET OFS2 TS2 : select getdate() OFS2 : select db_property('LastCommitRedoPos') // perform a PITR log backup BACKUP DATABASE POINT IN TIME RECOVERY LOGS ONLY TO '/demo/pitrLogBackup/PITR1' // perform DDL/ DML operations CREATE TABLE T3 ( ID INT ) INSERT INTO T3 VALUES (1) // restore the database to point-in-time TS2 OR OFS2 // shutdown the database // start a utility server // drop the database RESTORE DATABASE 'iqdemo' FROM '/demo/dataBackup/FULL1' RECOVER UNTIL TIMESTAMP '<TS2>' USING LOG PATH '/demo/pitrLogBackup/', '/demo/pitrLog/' // OR RESTORE DATABASE 'iqdemo' FROM '/demo/dataBackup/FULL1' RECOVER UNTIL OFFSET <OFS2> USING LOG PATH '/demo/pitrLogBackup/', '/demo/pitrLog/'
The RESTORE DATABASE command requires exclusive access by a user with the SERVER OPERATOR system privilege to the database. This exclusive access is achieved by setting the -gd switch to DBA, which is the default when you start the server engine.
Issue the RESTORE DATABASE command before you start the database (you must be connected to the utility_db database). Once you finish specifying RESTORE DATABASE commands for the type of backup, that database is ready to be used. The database is left in the state that existed at the end of the first implicit CHECKPOINT of the last backup you restored. You can now specify a START DATABASE to allow other users to access the restored database.
The maximum size for a complete RESTORE DATABASE command, including all clauses, is 32KB.
When restoring to a raw device, make sure the device is large enough to hold the dbspace you are restoring. SAP IQ RESTORE DATABASE checks the raw device size and returns an error, if the raw device is not large enough to restore the dbspace.
BACKUP DATABASE allows you to specify full or incremental backups. There are two kinds of incremental backups. INCREMENTAL backs up only those blocks that have changed and committed since the last backup of any type (incremental or full). INCREMENTAL SINCE FULL backs up all the blocks that have changed since the last full backup. If a restore of a full backup is followed by one or more incremental backups (of either type), no modifications to the database are allowed between successive RESTORE DATABASE commands. This rule prevents a restore from incremental backups on a database in need of crash recovery, or one that has been modified. You can still overwrite such a database with a restore from a full backup.
Before starting a full restore, you must delete two files: the catalog store file (default name dbname.db) and the transaction log file (default name dbname.log).
If you restore an incremental backup, RESTORE DATABASE ensures that backup media sets are accessed in the proper order. This order restores the last full backup tape set first, then the first incremental backup tape set, then the next most recent set, and so forth, until the most recent incremental backup tape set. If a user with the SERVER OPERATOR system privilege produced an INCREMENTAL SINCE FULL backup, only the full backup tape set and the most recent INCREMENTAL SINCE FULL backup tape set is required; however, if there is an INCREMENTAL backup made since the INCREMENTAL SINCE FULL backup, it also must be applied.
SAP IQ ensures that the restoration order is appropriate, or it displays an error. Any other errors that occur during the restore results in the database being marked corrupt and unusable. To clean up a corrupt database, do a restore from a full backup, followed by any additional incremental backups. Since the corruption probably happened with one of those backups, you might need to ignore a later backup set and use an earlier set.
To restore read-only files or dbspaces from an archive backup, the database may be running and the administrator may connect to the database when issuing the RESTORE DATABASE statement. The read-only file pathname need not match the names in the backup, if they otherwise match the database system table information.
The database must not be running to restore a FULL, INCREMENTAL SINCE FULL, or INCREMENTAL restore of either a READWRITE FILES ONLY or an all files backup. The database may or may not be running to restore a backup of read-only files. When restoring specific files in a read-only dbspace, the dbspace must be offline. When restoring read-only files in a read-write dbspace, the dbspace can be online or offline. The restore closes the read-only files, restores the files, and reopens those files at the end of the restore.
You can use selective restore to restore a read-only dbspace, as long as the dbspace is still in the same read-only state.
Other RESTORE DATABASE issues: