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Linking Striped Sybase Backups under Different Directories

By Jatinder Luthra posted 05-20-2020 11:25:00 AM

  
Delphix supports striped backups for Sybase. For a source database with striped backups present under the same location or same base directory, we can specify the base path and list all stripes under Backup Files, during dSource creation.

/opt/backups/sampledb/samdb1.dmp
/opt/backups/sampledb/samdb2.dmp
/opt/backups/sampledb/samdb3.dmp
/opt/backups/sampledb/samdb4.dmp
/opt/backups/sampledb/samdb5.dmp


In some situations, customers have striped backups for a Sybase source database with the same name for each stripe under different directories something similar as below-

/DUMP1/SYB/testdb.dmp
/DUMP2/SYB/testdb.dmp
/DUMP3/SYB/testdb.dmp
/DUMP4/SYB/testdb.dmp
/DUMP5/SYB/testdb.dmp

Symbolic links can be used to handle this situation.
Create a backup directory and point each file under this directory with a different name


mkdir /home/delphix/backup_testdb

ln -s /DUMP1/SYB/testdb.dmp /home/delphix/backup_testdb/stripe1.dmp
ln -s /DUMP2/SYB/testdb.dmp /home/delphix/backup_testdb/stripe2.dmp
ln -s /DUMP3/SYB/testdb.dmp /home/delphix/backup_testdb/stripe3.dmp
ln -s /DUMP4/SYB/testdb.dmp /home/delphix/backup_testdb/stripe4.dmp
ln -s /DUMP5/SYB/testdb.dmp /home/delphix/backup_testdb/stripe5.dmp
 


This approach will help to create a dSource from a source database which has striped backups under different base directories.


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#Virtualization
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