January 2007
Intermediate to advanced
760 pages
25h 14m
English
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Chapter 17. Sybase Backup and Recovery
Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise, or ASE, provides an excellent and easily understood set of server maintenance facilities. Unfortunately, there is no vendor-provided system for server maintenance, backups and restores, and alarming. You need to create your own server maintenance system, either with shell scripts or Perl. Luckily, this is not a complicated task. Your backup system can be scheduled via the Sybase job scheduler or a system scheduler. This chapter guides you through the process of creating your own backup system, using simple examples for illustration.
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This chapter was contributed by Ed Barlow. Ed has been contributing to the Sybase community for over 15 years and offers a number of free tools at his web site http://www.edbarlow.com.
The fundamental structure of this chapter mirrors the other database chapters in this book. The purpose is not to replace Sybase documentation but to cover normal server maintenance, backup, and recovery in a concise and understandable manner. Rarely used and deprecated features are skipped to provide more space for the information you need to understand normal server maintenance. As with the other chapters, I first review the database architecture, then describe common terms. I then cover common utilities, commands, and procedures, continuing with a description of common maintenance, backup, and recovery tasks, including details on how to script them. I finish with a step-by-step disaster recovery ...
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