Veritas Storage Foundation 5.1 SP1 Advanced Features Administrator"s Guide (5900-1503, April 2011)

Veritas NetBackup for Sybase integrates the database backup and recovery
capabilities of Sybase Backup Server with the backup and recovery management
capabilities of NetBackup.
Veritas NetBackup works with Sybase APIs to provide high-performance backup
and restore for Sybase dataservers. With Veritas NetBackup, you can set up
schedules for automatic, unattended backups for Sybase ASE dataservers
(NetBackup clients) across the network. These backups can be full database dumps
or incremental backups (transaction logs) and are managed by the NetBackup
server. You can also manually backup dataservers. The Sybase dump and load
commands are used to perform backups and restores.
Veritas NetBackup has both graphical and menu driven user interfaces to suit
your needs.
For details, refer to Veritas NetBackup System Administrator's Guide for UNIX.
About using Veritas NetBackup to backup and restore
Quick I/O files for DB2
Veritas NetBackup does not follow symbolic links when backing up files. Typical
backup management applications are designed this way to avoid backing up the
same data twice. This would happen if both the link and the file it points to were
included in the list of files to be backed up.
A Quick I/O file consists of two components: a hidden file with the space allocated
for it, and a link that points to the Quick I/O interface of the hidden file. Because
NetBackup does not follow symbolic links, you must specify both the Quick I/O
link and its hidden file in the list of files to be backed up.
To view all files and their attributes in the db01 directory:
$ ls -la /db01
total 2192
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 96 Oct 20 17:39 .
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 8192 Oct 20 17:39 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 db2 dba 1048576 Oct 20 17:39 .dbfile
lrwxrwxrwx 1 db2 dba 22 Oct 20 17:39 dbfile ->\
.dbfile::cdev:vxfs:
In the example above, you must include both the symbolic link dbfile and the
hidden file .dbfile in the file list of the backup class.
Backing up and restoring with Netbackup in an SFHA environment
About using Veritas NetBackup to backup and restore Quick I/O files for DB2
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