Preparing for backup and recovery

Backup (dump) and recovery (load) are two of the most critical activities a system or database administrator performs. Although Adaptive Server has automatic recovery procedures to protect you during power outages and computer failures, your best protection against media failure is regular and frequent database backups.

Before performing backup and recovery operations, you should do the following:

Develop a backup and recovery plan.
Make sure you can connect to the Backup Server from each Adaptive Server you administer.
Decide on the backup media you will use and create dump devices that identify your physical backup media to Adaptive Server.