The Database Manager supports the use of external backup tools for complete and incremental data backups, as well as for archiving log backups.
You can also use scripts to perform backups with external backup tools. If you do so, however, the Database Manager does not write a backup history. This means that it cannot check whether the backup procedure was successful.
You start the backup procedure directly from the Database Manager CLI. The pipes for transferring the backup data are implicitly created by the Database Manager CLI during the backup process. They must not exist beforehand.
See also:
Concepts of the Database System, section Using External Backup Tools
· You have the server authorization Backup.
· The database instance is in the operational state ADMIN or ONLINE.
· You have defined the backup media in accordance with the naming conventions for external backup media (see: Creating or Changing a Backup Medium).
· You have configured the MaxDB software installation for the backup tool you want to use (see Integration of External Backup Tools in the Installation Manual).
· You have inserted the required backup media in the external backup tool.
Proceed as described under Backing Up the Database Instance or Archiving the Version Files of the Log Area.
Logging on to the Database Manager CLI as operator DBM with password DBM, connecting to the database instance HOTELDB, performing a complete data backup to the ADSMData backup medium using the external backup tool TSM.
dbmcli –u dbm,dbm –uDBS –d HOTELDB backup_start ADSMData DATA