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35.1.3 Backing up the External Sybase Database Running on a
Linux Server to a Network Location on a Remote Linux Machine
To back up the external Sybase database that is installed and running on a Linux server to a network
location on a Linux machine, you need a local machine and a remote machine. The local machine is
a Linux server with the external Sybase database installed. The remote machine is a Linux machine
that has the network location to which you want to back up the database.
You can back up the database on a Linux machine by using any Linux share such as Samba share or
an NFS share.
To back up the external Sybase database that is installed and running on a Linux server to a network
location on a Linux machine by using Samba share:
1 Create a Samba share on the remote machine:
1a Create a user by entering the
useradd user_name
command at the command prompt.
1b Log in to the remote machine with the username you created in Step 1a , and set the
password by using the
passwd specify_the_password
command.
1c
Create a directory to save the database backup.
For example, create a directory with the name
backup
.
1d Open the Samba server settings by running the
yast2 samba-server
command.
1e Click the Shares tab, then click Add to specify the share name and the path to the backup
directory you created in Step 1c .
For example, specify the share name as
dbbackup
.
1f Select the
dbbackup
share, click Edit , then add the following attributes:
Š
create mask = 0640
Š
force user = user_name_created_in_ Step 1a
Š
guest ok = yes
Š
public = yes
Š
wide links = no
Š
writeable = yes
2 Create a directory on the local machine.
For example, create a directory with the name
zenworks_dbbackup
in
/root.
3 Mount the Samba share on the
zenworks_dbbackup
directory on the local machine by
entering the following command at the command prompt:
mount -t smbfs // IP_address of the remote_machine / share_name -o
username= user_name_specified_in_Step1a ,password= password_
specified_in_Step_1b
local_directory_name_with_complete_path_created_in_Step2
For example:
mount -t smbfs // IP_address of the remote_machine /dbbackup -o
username= user_name_specified_in_Step1a ,password= password_
specified_in_Step_1b /root/zenworks_dbbackup