How TO troubleshoot ADM8010E Backup was unable to copy requested log file

During a recent review of backup failure exceptions this error message appeared: SQL2428N The backup operation did not complete because an error was encountered while the backup utility was retrieving the log files. The platform was DB2 LUW 10.1 on Red Hat Linux 6 integrated with the Avamar Plug in 7.1 . The db2diag log file reported this error message at the same time: ADM8010E Backup was unable to copy requested log file "0003456.LOG" for inclusion in the backup image. The backup has been aborted The backup method used is ONLINE with INCLUDE LOGS. For a successful ONLINE BACKUP with... Read more →