sybdumptran

Use the sybdumptran utility to dump the most recent transactions when the database and the server have suffered a catastrophic failure.

sybdumptran generates a transaction log dump from the log pages contained in operating system files/raw devices, that were formerly used as a log device by a database in an SAP ASE environment. sybdumptran is located in:
  • (UNIX) $SYBASE/$SYBASE_ASE/bin/
  • (Windows) %SYBASE%\%SYBASE_ASE%\bin as sybdumptran.exe

Syntax

sybdumptran [-m file_name | -g | -d database_name |
    -f first_page_num ] -o output_file | -h dump_history_file_name 

or:

sybdumptran --help

Parameters

Examples

Permissions

Any user who has read permissions on the log devices of the database, and write permission to the output file can use sybdumptran.