Brocade Fabric Manager Administrator's Guide (53-10000196-01-HP, November 2006)

Fabric Manager Administrator’s Guide 23-3

Publication Number: 53-1000196-01-HP

Performing Backups

Incremental Backup

To perform an incremental backup, enter the following command in the CLI (the entire command is on

a single line):

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.

• -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

causes only the transaction log file to be backed up.

dbbackup -c

"uid=dba;pwd=sql;eng=fabman;CommLinks=tcpip{DOBROADCAST=DIRECT;HOST=localh

ost;ServerPort=2638}" -y -r -n -t <destdir>

Caution

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.

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.