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Procedure documentation Backing Up to a Single Backup Medium Locate the document in the library structure

You can use the Database Manager GUI to back up data or log entries to a single backup medium.

Note

If possible, we recommend that you back up data to a group of parallel backup media, rather than backing up the data to a single backup medium with succeeding media. You cannot make log backups in parallel.

Recommendation

We recommend checking the database structures before each complete data backup.

Prerequisites

Only one backup device is available. You have created the required backup medium.

If you want to perform a backup using an automatic tape loader (Backups to Automatic Tape Loader), or with the help of external backup tools (Backups with Backup Tools from Other Providers), then you must state this specifically when defining the backup media.

Under normal circumstances, you should back up database instances in the ONLINE operational state.

You can also back up database instances in the ADMIN operational state, but only in exceptional circumstances.

Procedure

Use the Backup Wizard.

       1.      If you have not yet created a backup medium, do this now as described in Creating a Single Backup Medium. Select a backup medium in the window Media for Backup.

       2.      Check the details. Change them if required (Changing Backup Media).

       3.      Start the backup, or activate automatic log backups.
If the capacity of the specified backup medium is not large enough for the backup and you are not using an automatic tape loader, the
Backup Wizard asks you to specify and insert a new backup medium as soon as the previous medium has been filled (see Backups with Manually Changed Media (Succeeding Medium)).

Result

You can check the results of your log backups using the Backup History.

 

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