Getting information about backups and restores
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Maintaining the backup log
It’s a good idea to clean up the backup log after you purge backup media. Use
a text editor to do so. Be careful with your edits: once
BACKUP
or
RESTORE
records information in this file, it does not check its accuracy.
There is only one backup log on a server. The server must be able to read and
write this file. The system administrator may want to limit access to this file by
other users. If you are running more than one database server on a system, you
should set the ASLOGDIR environment variable differently for each server, to
produce separate backup logs.
Warning!
Do not edit the backup log while a backup or restore is taking place.
If you are modifying the file while
BACKUP
or
RESTORE
is writing to it, you
may invalidate the information in the file.
Viewing the backup log in Sybase Central
The backup log contains information in raw, unsorted form. To see the
information in a form that is easier to understand, you can view it in Sybase
Central.
Note
This feature is not yet supported.
Recording dbspace names
In the event that you ever need to use the
RENAME
option of
RESTORE
to
move a database or one of its dbspaces, you need to know the name of every
dbspace in the database. The dbspace names are in the
SYSFILE
table of every
database, but you will not have this table available when you are restoring. For
this reason, you should issue the following statement any time you back up
your database:
select * from SYSFILE
Summary of Contents for Adaptive Server IQ 12.4.2
Page 1: ...Administration and Performance Guide Adaptive Server IQ 12 4 2 ...
Page 16: ...xvi ...
Page 20: ...Related documents xx ...
Page 40: ...Compatibility with earlier versions 20 ...
Page 118: ...Troubleshooting startup shutdown and connections 98 ...
Page 248: ...Importing data by replication 228 ...
Page 306: ...Integrity rules in the system tables 286 ...
Page 334: ...Cursors in transactions 314 ...
Page 396: ...Users and permissions in the system tables 376 ...
Page 438: ...Determining your data backup and recovery strategy 418 ...
Page 484: ...Network performance 464 ...
Page 500: ...System utilities to monitor CPU use 480 ...
Page 514: ...Characteristics of Open Client and jConnect connections 494 ...
Page 536: ...Index 516 ...