Include logs in online backup (As of DB2 8.2)

db2 BACKUP DB “dbname” ONLINE TO “backupdir” INCLUDE LOGS

Above command includes the logs required to restore the database and bring back the database to a consistent point.

And to restore

db2 RESTORE DB “dbname” FROM “backupdir” LOGTARGET “logdir”

ROLLFORWARD DB “dbname” TO END OF LOGS AND STOP OVERFLOW LOG PATH “logdir”

To restore just the logs from the backup image

db2 restore db “dbname” logs from “backupdir” logtarget ‘logdir”