hi, I don't know why but fequently ( practically nearly every day )
The sybase backup server fallsover and fails to take a backup . I restart it again and then serveral hours later when it supposes to take a scheduled backup it fallsover again . I have checked the interface file that is fine .Checked the the sysservers table entry is there.
I get errors 7205 and 7235 . Looked on the sybase website , not particularly helpful , tried some of the solutions they had , all indications are fine . This one is a bit of a mystery . Even after running the backup server I checked netstat -a to see if the port was used by something else and it is not .
help !

Hiya,

If there is abackup server core dump, probably a good idea to supply that to Sybase Support.

Also, when it fails try doing the following SYB_BACKUP...sp_who, this is tell you if it is still alive.

Cheers
Willy

Just a comment; it's probably unrelated to your problem.
In some ASE versions (I know it happened in 11.0.3.3)
the backupserver process didn't "daemonize" well.
So, if launched from a startup script, it couldn't detach
from the script and died when the script finished.
We had to code
nohup startserver -f ...
instead of just
startserver -f ...
And, more important, inside the RUN file,
nohup backupserver ...
instead of
backupserver ...

Regards,
Mariano CorralModified post