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Getting information about backups and restores
Getting information about backups and restores
Locating the backup log
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If you are using a third-party backup product, the vendor information string
needs to convey any information needed for the backup, such as the
specification of devices, size of files, and stacker drives. See your vendor's
documentation for details.
Adaptive Server IQ does not permit unattended restore.
Note
Adaptive Server IQ provides a backup log, .backup.syb, to help you manage
your backup media. This log is not used to create the backup or to restore the
database; however, information describing the backup or restore is recorded in
this file during both Backup and Restore.
To display only the information about a particular backup, you can run
Note
with the
RESTORE
CATALOG ONLY
file for a backup from the media rather than from the file, so that the DBA can
identify what is on the tape or file. See "Displaying header information".
The.backup.syb file is in ASCII text format. Its location depends on the setting
of environment variables at the time the server is started:
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On UNIX, the server tries to place it in the following locations, in this
order:
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The directory specified by the ASLOGDIR environment variable.
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The directory specified by the HOME environment variable.
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The home directory as obtained from account information.
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The current directory (where the server was started).
If the file is placed in the "home" directory, it is prefixed with a "." in order
to make it a hidden file.
option. This option displays the header
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