Veritas Storage Foundation 5.1 SP1 Advanced Features Administrator"s Guide (5900-1503, April 2011)

If you want to back up all Quick I/O files in a directory, you can simplify the process
by just specifying the directory to be backed up. In this case, both components of
each Quick I/O file will be properly backed up. In general, you should specify
directories to be backed up unless you only want to back up some, but not all files,
in those directories.
Because NetBackup is tightly integrated with the Veritas Database Edition for
DB2, NetBackup backs up extent attributes of a Quick I/O file and restores them
accordingly. Quick I/O files can then be backed up and restored as regular files
using NetBackup, while preserving the Quick I/O file's extent reservation. Without
this feature, restoring the file could cause the loss of contiguous reservation,
which can degrade performance.
When restoring a Quick I/O file, if both the symbolic link and the hidden file
already exist, NetBackup will restore both components from the backup image.
If either one of or both of the two components are missing, NetBackup creates or
overwrites as needed.
About using Veritas NetBackup to backup and restore
Quick I/O files for Sybase
Veritas NetBackup does not follow symbolic links when backing up files. Typical
backup management applications are designed this way to avoid backing up the
same data twice. This would happen if both the link and the file it points to were
included in the list of files to be backed up.
A Quick I/O file consists of two components: a hidden file with the space allocated
for it, and a link that points to the Quick I/O interface of the hidden file. Because
NetBackup does not follow symbolic links, you must specify both the Quick I/O
link and its hidden file in the list of files to be backed up.
To view all files and their attributes in the db01 directory:
$ ls -la /db01
total 2192
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 96 Oct 20 17:39 .
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 8192 Oct 20 17:39 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 db2 dba 1048576 Oct 20 17:39 .dbfile
lrwxrwxrwx 1 db2 dba 22 Oct 20 17:39 dbfile ->\
.dbfile::cdev:vxfs:
305Backing up and restoring with Netbackup in an SFHA environment
About using Veritas NetBackup to backup and restore Quick I/O files for Sybase