Backing Up The Embedded Sybase Sql Anywhere Database; Backing Up The Embedded Sybase Sql Anywhere Database On A Windows Or Linux; Server - Novell ZENWORKS 10 CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT SP3 - SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION REFERENCE 10.3 16-04-2010 System Administration Manual

34.3 Backing Up the Embedded Sybase SQL
Anywhere Database
The embedded Sybase SQL Anywhere database can be backed up to a directory on the local
machine or to a network location.
Section 34.3.1, "Backing Up the Embedded Sybase SQL Anywhere Database on a Windows or
Linux Server," on page 295
Section 34.3.2, "Backing up the Embedded Sybase SQL Anywhere Database Running on a
Windows Server to a Network Location on a Remote Windows Machine," on page 297
Section 34.3.3, "Backing up the Embedded Sybase SQL Anywhere Database Running on a
Linux Server to a Network Location on a Remote Linux Machine," on page 299
34.3.1 Backing Up the Embedded Sybase SQL Anywhere
Database on a Windows or Linux Server
1 Store the ZENworks administrator name and password by entering the following command at
the command prompt:
zman admin-store-credential administrator
If you do not store the credentials, you must enter the ZENworks administrator name and
password for each zman command.
You can immediately back up the embedded Sybase SQL Anywhere database or schedule the
backup to run at a specific time. To back up the embedded Sybase SQL Anywhere database
immediately, continue with
Step 3.
2 (Conditional) To immediately back up the embedded Sybase SQL Anywhere database to a
directory on the database server, enter the following command at the command prompt:
zman database-backup
complete_path_of_the_backup_directory_on_database_server
For example, to back up the database to the
server, execute
zman database-backup c:\dbbackup
directory on a Linux database server, execute
root/dbBackup
.
root/dbBackup
3 (Conditional) To schedule the backup to run at a specific time every day or on specific days of
a month, you need to create a schedule file and run it.
3a Create a schedule file with the Create event,
contents:
CREATE EVENT backup_schedule_name
SCHEDULE
specify_the_schedule
A sample schedule file to back up the database at a 11 p.m. every day is as follows:
CREATE EVENT ZENDBBackup
SCHEDULE
START TIME '11:00 PM' EVERY 24 HOURS
Step 2. To schedule the backup to run at a specific time, skip to
c:\dbbackup
backupschedule.sql
directory on a Windows database
. To back up the database to the
zman database-backup /
, with the following
Embedded Database Maintenance 295
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