Backup Servers in a Shared Disk Cluster environment are available across all nodes of the cluster. A cluster has a single Backup Server. You can configure the Backup Server on any node of the cluster, and you can provide additional hosts and port numbers on which Backup Server can start if its current node goes down.
You can execute the dump and load commands from any node in the cluster. Once issued, the local instance services the dump and load commands and routes them to the cluster’s Backup Server. The instances attempt to connect to Backup Server using the order specified in interfaces file. If Backup Server is not running on any of the nodes in the cluster, the instance on which you issued the dump or load command starts Backup Server, if Backup Server is configured to run on this node in the interfaces file.
You can install and start Backup Server using the sybcluster utility, which prompts you for required information and then performs the installation start up for you. You can also perform all of these steps manually. Both methods are described in this section.
The Backup Server binary ($SYBASE/$SYBASE_ASE/bin/backupserver) is installed when you install Adaptive Server version 15.0.1 CE.
