Backing Up a Sybase Database Instance

You can backup Sybase database instance on demand.

You can perform a full backup operation, a transaction log backup operation, or an incremental backup operation.

Before You Begin

IntelliSnap backup operations do not support the backup of database encryption keys.

Procedure

1. From the navigation pane, go to Protect > Databases.

   The Overview page appears.

2. Go to the Instances tab.

3. In the row for the database instance you want to back up, click the Action button , and then click Backup.

   Alternatively, click the instance you want to back up, and then click Backup on the overview page.

   The Backup options dialog box appears.

4. Under Backup level, select the type of backup that you want to perform:

   1. To perform a full backup operation, select Full.

   2. To perform a transaction log backup operation, select Transaction log, and then specify the following:

      1. To back up the complete transaction logs of a damaged database, select the Do not truncate log check box.

      2. To skip full backup operations for new databases that are discovered during the log backup operation, select the Skip full for newly added databases after log backup check box.

         By default, when the software discovers new databases during a log backup operation, it performs a full backup for the new databases. Selecting this check box skips the full backup for the new databases.

      3. To back up the data that changed after the most recent full backup, select Cumulative Incremental.

5. Click the Edit button associated with Retention option. You can select the following options:

   1. Infinitive

   2. Retention period: Enter a period as per requirement.

6. Under Tap media options section, you can perform the following actions:

   • When you move Start New Media toggle key to right, consider the following:

     • For an individual job the job will use a new media.

     • For a scheduled job at the backup set level, all jobs that belong to the schedule from that backup set will go to a new media.

     • For a schedule policy, all jobs that run from that schedule policy, will go to a new media.

   • When you move Mark media full on success toggle key to right, the system marks the media as full two minutes after a job completes. If another data protection job is queued or started within that two-minute period, the media will be used by that job. In addition, this option is useful when multiple data protection jobs are triggered simultaneously by a schedule or schedule policy, and the associated data needs to be written to the same media set.

7. Click Submit.