Backing Up The Embedded Sybase Sql Anywhere Database Running On A Windows Server To A Network Location On A Remote Windows Machine - Novell ZENWORKS 10 CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT SP3 - SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION REFERENCE 10.3 16-04-2010 System Administration Manual

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
To back up an embedded Sybase SQL Anywhere database that is installed and running on a
Windows server to a network location on another Windows machine, you need a local machine and
a remote machine. The local machine is a Windows server with the ZENworks server components
and the embedded Sybase SQL Anywhere database installed. The remote machine is a Windows
machine that has the network location to which you want to back up the database.
1 Perform the following steps on the local machine:
1a Create an administrative user and specify a password.
For example, you could specify the administrative username as
password as
novell
1b From the desktop Start menu, click Settings, click Control Panel, double-click
Administrative Tools, then double-click Services.
1c Right-click the Novell ZENworks Datastore service, then click Properties.
1d Click the Log On tab.
1e Select This account, then specify the name and the password of the administrative user
created in Step
For example, specify the user as
1f Click OK.
2 Perform the following steps on the remote machine that has the network location where you
want to save the backup:
2a Create an account with the same credentials as the user you created in
For example, specify user as
2b Provide Read/Write permission on the network location to the user.
To immediately back up the database, continue with
at a specific time every day or on specific days of a month, skip to
3 (Conditional) To immediately back up the database to the network location on the remote
machine, enter the following command at the command prompt:
zman database-backup
\\IP_address_of_the_remote_machine\backup_directory\custom_directory
Where
\\IP_address_of_the_remote_machine\backup_directory
location on the remote machine and
directory to be newly created by zman and into which the database files are to be backed up.
4 (Conditional) To schedule the backup:
4a Create a schedule file,
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
.
1a.
Administrator
Administrator
custom_directory_name
backupschedule.sql
Administrator
and the password as
and password as
novell
Step 3. To schedule the backup to run
Step
is the network
is a name that you specify for a
, with the following contents:
Embedded Database Maintenance 297
and the
.
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Step 1a.
.
4.