Backups for the Dump Configuration Files

Create a backup of SAP ASE configuration files in a specified dump directory.

The dump configuration command allows you to back up the SAP ASE configuration file, the dump history file, and the cluster configuration file.

Dump configuration options can be defined to create a database dump. Backup Server then uses the configuration to perform a database dump. You can use:

The dump configuration command to create, modify, or list dump configurations, then use dump database or dump transaction with the dump configurations to perform dumps.
The enforce dump configuration configuration parameter to enable dump operations with dump configurations.
The configuration group dump configuration to manage user-created dump configurations.

Dumping the history file allows you to:

Preserve the history of dump database and dump transaction commands in a dump history file that can be used later to restore databases up to a specified point in time.
Read the dump history file and regenerate the load sequence of SQL statements necessary to restore the database. Use:
```
load database with listonly=load_sql until_time = datetime 
```
Use the sp_dump_history system procedure to purge dump history records.
Use the enable dump history configuration parameter to disable default updates to the dump history file at the end of every dump operation.
Use the dump history filename configuration parameter to specify the name of the dump history file.

You can also use these dump with listonly command options:

Use the create_sql option to list the sequence of disk init, sp_cacheconfig, create database, and alter database commands that are needed to create a target database with the same layout as the source database.
Use the load_sql option, which uses the dump history file to generate the list of load database and load transaction commands that are needed to repopulate the database to a specified point in time.