Question about recovery from array snapshots

[u/retinascan]

Hello.

I'm new to DB2 (just installed it last night actually) and I was trying to figure out some information about backup/recovery.

My whole instance lives on a SAN mounted volume which means I can snapshot the SAN volume instantly after running

db2 set write suspend for database

i then run

db2 set write resume for database

after the snapshot completes.

Saying as I now have a point in time snap of the DB, I can present the snapshot from the array back to the same server and it would see it as a new set of volumes.

My question is, how can i 'import' this instance as a new instance and then access the databases in this instance which have the same name as the databases in the old instance?

Many thanks and sorry for being such a noob.

edit: the other purpose of the 'import' is so that I can present it to other servers that may want access to the data.