You can use administrative scripts to automate operations that you might normally perform periodically with Sybase Central.
Start, stop, or synchronize servers
Start dbisql
The scripts start_server and sync_server are located in the database directory. On a Windows host, these scripts are .bat files. On UNIX, they are shell scripts. You can run these scripts from the command line in place of start_iq and dbbackup, respectively.
Open each script with a text editor to see comments about how to use it.
Scripts that require a password define it as an input parameter.