Tape backup of Sybase ASE database

[former_member652979]

I have recently installed ECC6 EHP6 system running on Sybase ASE. I have scheduled disk backups using DB13 with the stored procedure sp_dumptrans and sp_dumpdb. Due to scarcity of disk space, I would like to take the backup on tape device. I want to know how can I take tape backup and which commands I need to run for initializing tape. Earlier I used Oracle database and scheduled tape backups through brtools which has inbuilt initialize tape feature.

[former_member188883]

Hi Avik,

You may use command as follows

Example 1

Dumps the database pubs2 to a tape device. If the tape has an ANSI tape label, this command appends this dump to the files already on the tape, since the initoption is not specified:

dump database pubs2     to "/dev/nrmt0

Refer link for more details

http://infocenter.sybase.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.sybase.help.ase_15.0.commands/html/commands/c...

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Deepak Kori