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
NetBackup server and client requirements
Verify that the following requirements are met for the NetBackup server:
The NetBackup server software is installed and operational on the NetBackup server.
See the NetBackup Installation Guide.
Make sure that you configure any backup media that the storage unit uses. The number of media volumes that are required depends on several things:
The devices that are used and storage capacity of the media
The sizes of the databases that you want to back up
The amount of data that you want to archive
The size of your backups
The frequency of backups or archives
The length of retention of the backup images
Verify that the following requirements are met for the NetBackup clients:
The NetBackup client software is installed on the computer that has the databases you want to back up.
If the database is clustered, you must use the same version of NetBackup on each node in the cluster.
To use the new features that are included in NetBackup for Sybase in NetBackup 8.1, you must upgrade your NetBackup for Sybase clients to NetBackup 8.1. The NetBackup media server must use the same version as the NetBackup for Sybase client or a higher version than the client.