Before You Begin

Perform these tasks before using sybrestore.

To restore a user database, you must be a user with sa_role privilege. To work on an offline database that has offline or inactivated devices, you must be a user with mon_role and sa_role.
To restore a master database, you must provide a restoremaster.cfg configuration file, resource files for building the SAP ASE server and the Backup Server, and dump history files.
Make sure these environment variables are set correctly:
- SYBASE -- the location of the current version of SAP ASE.
- SYBASE_ASE -- the location of the SAP ASE component directory.
- SAP_JRE7 -- the location of SAP JRE 1.7.
- SYBASE_JRE6 and SYBASE_JRE7 -- the location of JRE 1.6 and JRE 1.7 respectively.
  Note: In SAP ASE 16.0, SYBASE_JRE6 and SYBASE_JRE7 are superseded by SAP_JRE7.
Adaptive Server and Backup Server must be running for both the target and source servers.
The master database must be available.
The source database must be connected to the server in a recovered or unrecovered state.
The log segment of the source database must be available for dumping and then loading back the last transaction logs that have not been dumped.
Dump history files or external dump files must be available.

sybrestore is installed as part of the SAP ASE software. For more information, see the installation guide for your platform. The executable file is located in:

$SYBASE/ASE-15_0/bin/