Manually installing and starting the Backup Server

To configure the Backup Server manually:

1. Add the Backup Server’s information to the interfaces file. Include an entry for each node on which you want Backup Server to start. This example adds a Backup Server named “Cluster_BS”:

   Cluster_BS
        master tcp ether blade1 <port1>
        query tcp ether blade1 <port1>
        master tcp ether blade2 <port2>
        query tcp ether blade2 <port2>
        master tcp ether blade3 <port3>
        query tcp ether blade3 <port3>
   

   If the enable backupserver HA configuration option is enabled, then the Backupserver is started on whichever node the instance on which the dump or load command was executed on is running. If enable backspserver HA is not enabled, then the Backupserver is started wherever the end-user decides to start it. If this node is not available, it attempts to start on blade2, and so on.

2. Add the Backupserver to the sysservers table using the sp_addserver stored procedure. For example:

   sp_addserver SYB_BACKUP, rpcserver, SYB_BACKUP
   

3. Add a runserver file for Backup Server. Create the file in the same directory you created the runserver file for each of the instances (typically, $SYBASE/$SYBASE_ASE/install). For example, the following is the contents of the runserver file for the Cluster_BS backup server:

   #!/bin/sh
   #
   # Backup Server Information:
   #  name:                          Cluster_BS
   #  errorlog: /sybase/ase1501ce/ASE-15_0/install/backup.log
   #  interfaces: /sybase/ase1501ce/ASE-15_0/interfaces/interfaces
   #  location of multibuf: /sybase/ase1501ce/ASE-15_0/bin/sybmultbuf
   #  language:                      us_english
   #  character set:                 iso_1
   #  tape configuration file: /sybase/ase1501ce/ASE-15_0/backup_tape.cfg
   #
   #
   /sybase/ase1501ce/ASE-15_0/backupserver -SCluster_BS \
   -e/sybase/ase1501ce/ASE-15_0/install/backup.log \
   -I/sybase/ase1501ce/interfaces\
   -M/sybase/ase1501ce/ASE-15_0/bin/sybmultbuf -Lus_english -Jiso_1 \
   -c/sybase/ase1501ce//Cluster_BS.cfg
   

4. 'enable backupserver HA' enables the cluster for high availabilty Backup Server. This functionality starts a new Backup Server on the current node if the current node is configured to run Backup Server and no active Backup Server is available.

   Disabling this functionlity does not start Backup Server automatically when no active Backup Server is available.

   Run sp_configure 'enable backupserver HA' to configure the cluster for a high availability Backup Server functionality:

   • sp_configure 'enable backupserver HA', 1 – enables the cluster for a Backup Server.

   • sp_configure 'enable backupserver HA', 0 – disables the cluster for a Backup Server functionality.