Restore to Another Server Using Credentials

To restore a database to another server, you can specify credentials of a user account under which the backup was created.

To restore database, do the following steps:

Start the restore operation using one of the following commands depending on the OS you are using:

For Linux or Unix:

/opt/veeam/VeeamPluginforDB2/DB2ConfigTool --set-backup-for-restore

For Microsoft Windows:

"C:\Program Files\Veeam\VeeamPluginforDB2\DB2ConfigTool.exe" --set-backup-for-restore

Veeam Plug-In will prompt you to select an authentication method to access the backup. To access the backup using credentials of the account under which the backup was created, type 2:

Select authentication type or disable the functionality:
0. To disable the functionality
1. Currently set authentication data
2. Credentials
3. Recovery token
Enter authentication type number: 2

Veeam Plug-In will prompt you to provide credentials of the user account that under which the backup was created. Enter a user name and password of the account:

Enter username:
Enter password for <username>:

Depending on the name of the target instance, perform one of the following operations:

If you restore to another instance with the same name as the backed-up instance, continue the restore operation in the same way you restore to the original server. For details, see Restore to Original Server.

If you plan to restore to another instance with a name that is different from the backed-up instance, see Restore to Instance with Different Name.