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Introducing the Agent for Sybase

CA ARCserve Backup is a comprehensive storage solution for applications, databases, distributed servers, and file systems. It provides backup and restore capabilities for databases, business-critical applications, and network clients.

Among the agents CA ARCserve Backup offers is the CA ARCserve Backup Agent for Sybase. This agent lets you do the following:

• Back up Sybase Adaptive Server databases and transaction logs using CA ARCserve Backup without taking your database offline or preventing users from adding new data to it.
• Restore Sybase Adaptive Server databases and transaction logs using CA ARCserve Backup.
• Access, back up, and restore multiple Sybase Adaptive Server instances.

The Agent for Sybase is a client program that you install on the server with Sybase Adaptive Server. The agent handles the communications between CA ARCserve Backup and the database server during backup and restore jobs, including preparing, retrieving, and processing the data packets that are sent back and forth between the database server and CA ARCserve Backup.

Note: The Sybase Adaptive Server backs up online databases to the local database server. It cannot back up online databases to other media.

Using CA ARCserve Backup, the agent can back up to any media available to CA ARCserve Backup.

This section contains the following topics:

How the Agent Works

User IDs, Passwords, and Remote Database Servers

Agent Parameters