Enhancements to Backup and Restore

Adaptive Server 15.7 SP100 includes enhancements to the dump and load commands.

The dump database command allows you to perform a cumulative backup, in which you make a copy of all the pages that have been modified in the database since the last full database dump.
The ability to back up (dump) one database to restore (load) into another, using a dump history file.
Integration of Tivoli Storage Manager with the dump history file.
The sybdumptran utility, which allows you to generate a final transaction log dump from log devices from outside of Adaptive Server, when your server suffers a catastrophic failure.
A new ability with load database for listonly=create_sql to include database options and attributes.

Cumulative Dump
The Adaptive Server dump database command allows you to perform a cumulative backup, in which you make a copy of all the pages in the database that have been modified since the last full database dump.
Changes to load database
Adaptive Server 15.7 SP100 includes changes to the load database command.
The sybdumptran Utility
Use the sybdumptran utility to dump the most recent transactions when, due to the server suffering a catastrophic failure so that you cannot use dump tran with no_truncate.