Types of Backup

SAP Mobile Platform uses SQL Anywhere to store data. SQL Anywhere includes different mechanisms and options for backing up the data. See SQL Anywhere documentation to learn more about the different backup options, and select the right approach based on your business requirements and backup strategy.

• Offline Backup, Online Backups, and Live Backup
  An offline backup is a copy of the database files. You can make offline backups by copying the database files when the database is not running.
• Full and Incremental Database Backup
  A full backup includes the database files and the transaction log. In a typical backup plan, full backups are interspersed with several incremental backups.
• Client-Side and Server-Side Backup
  A client-side backup is done using an external program (dbbackup) that performs the backup by making a connection to the database.