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 to back up, click the Action button , and then click Backup. Alternatively, click the instance you want to back up and select Backup in the upper-right of the 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.

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

6. Click Submit.