Hi Experts,
We need to take a backup of SAP ECC system installed on Sybase ASE 15.7 and I could find the below SAP notes :
- 1585981 SYB: Ensuring Recoverability for Sybase ASE
- 1588316 SYB: Configure automatic database and log backups
- 1618817 SYB: How to restore a Sybase ASE database server (UNIX)
As per the note 1588316 could understand that by DUMP DATABASE and DUMP TRANSACTION we can take the backup and I assume it is online backup.
So I would like to understand
- How to take an offline backup? I believe this is more reliable as we are patching our DEV system and need a backup. Please advice
- Using the backup taken with the above method can we restore the backup on a different machine ?
- How would the procedure differ from restoring on same server to different server
- What would be the compression % ff I had to backup the data to a local file system how much space I would need ?
Thanks !!
Regards,
Srikanth