{"id":12044,"date":"2024-03-14T15:09:15","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T15:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-do-i-back-up-data-for-a-table-in-db2\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T20:33:52","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T20:33:52","slug":"how-do-i-back-up-data-for-a-table-in-db2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-do-i-back-up-data-for-a-table-in-db2\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Backup DB2 Table Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To back up the data of a table in DB2, you can use the following command:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"post-pre\"><code>EXPORT <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">TO<\/span> filename <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">OF<\/span> DEL MODIFIED <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">BY<\/span> COLDEL, CODEPAGE<span class=\"hljs-operator\">=<\/span><span class=\"hljs-number\">1208<\/span>\r\n  MESSAGES msgs\r\n  <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">SELECT<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-operator\">*<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">FROM<\/span> schema.tablename;\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>In this case, filename represents the name of the backup data file, schema refers to the schema where the table is located, and tablename is the name of the table whose data needs to be backed up. 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