Making a client-side backup

You can use the Backup utility (dbbackup) to make a backup on the client computer. The Backup utility (dbbackup) uses physical device-level parallelism to decrease the overall time required to complete a backup operation. Parallel backups are not supported on Windows Mobile. See Understanding parallel database backups.

The following methods are supported for making a client-side backup:

Tool	More information
Backup utility (dbbackup)	Make a client-side backup by using the dbbackup utility
DBBackup function	a_backup_db structure

Make a client-side backup by using the dbbackup utility

The dbbackup utility makes an image backup, which consists a copy of the database file and/or the transaction log, each as separate files.

To make a client-side backup (dbbackup utility)

Run the Backup utility (dbbackup) on the client computer. For example:

dbbackup -c "HOST=myhost;DBN=demo;UID=DBA;PWD=sql" SQLAnybackup