You can now create and store a checkpoint on a cloud provider. Cloud checkpoints are created using the open source rclone utility.

The checkpoint data is created when a checkpoint is run on the cloud provider instead of a local disk. When a database uses the cloud checkpoint location, the journals and dump data are copied to the cloud checkpoint location. In the event of a disk failure, the database can be restored with the information stored in the cloud provider.

When you perform a rollforward on a database with a cloud checkpoint location and the journals for the checkpoint are not available in II_JOURNAL, the rollforwarddb will restore the files from the cloud during rollforward.