Specifies the transaction number of a starting transaction that causes BACKUP -BYTESTREAM to copy all blocks that have been changed by that transaction and all subsequent transactions. The format of the TRANSACTION qualifier is:
-T[RANSACTION]=transaction-number
A Transaction number is always 16 digit hexadecimal number. It appears in a DSE DUMP -FILEHEADER with the label "Current transaction".
If the transaction number is invalid, MUPIP BACKUP reports an error and rejects the command.
It may be faster than a DATABASE backup, if the database is mostly empty.
Incompatible with: -DATABASE, -SINCE
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A point in time that is consistent from an application perspective is unlikely to have the same transaction number in all database regions. Therefore, except for -TRANSACTION=1, this qualifier is not likely to be useful for any backup involving multiple regions. |