Brocade Fabric Manager Administrator's Guide v6.1.0 (53-10000610-02, June 2008)

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Backups

where:

• <destdir>

is the destination directory for the backup files.

• -y

is an option that causes the dbbackup utility to overwrite files without any prompt.

ATTENTION

Be careful with the -y option if you are always backing up the same directory. The fabman.db

database file is overwritten without a prompt by this option.

• -r

is an option that renames and restarts the transaction log file after backing it up. You can

use this option to reduce the transaction log file size.

• -n

is an option that causes the transaction log file to be named using the yymmddxx.log

format, where xx is AA, AB, AC, etc.

• -t (incremental backup only)

causes only the transaction log file to be backed up.

NOTE

A copy of the transaction log file is also placed in the databases directory. This copy can be safely

deleted after the backup is complete.