Veritas NetBackup™ for Sybase Administrator's Guide
- Introduction to NetBackup for Sybase
- Installing NetBackup for Sybase
- Planning the installation of NetBackup for Sybase
- Verifying the operating system and platform compatibility
- NetBackup server and client requirements
- Sybase server software requirements
- Requirements for using NetBackup for Sybase in a NetBackup cluster
- About the license for NetBackup for Sybase
- Copying the NetBackup for Sybase library to each Sybase instance
- Running the sybase_config script
- Adding new Sybase instances
- Configuring NetBackup for Sybase
- About NetBackup for Sybase configuration
- About configuring a backup policy for Sybase
- About the backup, restore, and load scripts for NetBackup for Sybase on UNIX
- About the backup, restore, and load scripts for NetBackup for Sybase on Windows
- Modifying the backup script for NetBackup for Sybase on Windows
- sybase_mdb_backup.cmd script
- Additional information for editing the backup script for NetBackup for Sybase on Windows
- Modifying the restore script for NetBackup for Sybase on Windows
- sybase_mydb_restore.cmd script example for NetBackup
- Additional information for editing the restore script for NetBackup for Sybase on Windows
- Modifying the NetBackup for Sybase load script
- NetBackup for Sybase environment variables
- NetBackup for Sybase configuration or bp.conf file settings
- Configuring the logon account for the NetBackup Client Service for NetBackup for Sybase
- About striped dumps and loads with NetBackup for Sybase
- Reviewing the auto-discovered mappings in Host Management
- About permissions for NetBackup for Sybase log files (UNIX)
- Configuring the Maximum jobs per client
- Performing a manual backup
- Using NetBackup for Sybase
- Troubleshooting NetBackup for Sybase
- NetBackup debug logs and reports
- Enabling the debug logs for a NetBackup for Sybase client automatically (Windows)
- Enabling the debug logs manually (UNIX)
- About the bphdb directory on the Windows database client
- About the bphdb directory on the UNIX database client
- About the sybackup directory on the UNIX database client
- About the sybackup directory on the Windows database client
- Setting the debug level on a UNIX client
- About NetBackup server reports
- Sybase Backup Server log and messages
- Minimizing timeout failures on large database restores
- Minimizing the loading and unloading of tapes for database backups
- Delays in completion of backup jobs
- NetBackup debug logs and reports
- Appendix A. Register authorized locations
Sequence of operation for NetBackup for Sybase backups
Sybase script files control the NetBackup operations. A user selects a script through the NetBackup client user interface.
You use the NetBackup Administration Console to configure a schedule to use a script to perform NetBackup operations.
The following process takes place when a script is selected for a backup:
A NetBackup process called bphdb starts the Sybase backup script on the client.
The Sybase backup script starts the isql utility and uses the Sybase SQL script as an input file.
SQL Server starts the requested operation on the databases.
If the process requires media to store backup data, NetBackup for Sybase starts a user-directed backup by using the NetBackup bpbackup command for Sybase database extension.
The NetBackup media server connects to NetBackup for Sybase on the client.
Sybase backup server sends data to NetBackup for Sybase, which transfers data to the media server.
The media server sends the data to a storage unit.
A restore works in essentially the same manner except that NetBackup for Sybase issues a bprestore command. This causes the media server to retrieve the data from the storage unit and send it to NetBackup for Sybase on the client.
Sybase backup server supports parallel operations, so it is possible to start more than one backup or restore operation.