nBackup Support

Tracker reference: CORE-1758.

The nBackup utility performs two logical groups of operations: locking or unlocking a database and backing it up or restoring it. While there is no rationale for providing a service action for the lock/unlock operations—they can be requested remotely by way of an SQL language request for ALTER DATABASE—a Services API interface to the backup/restore operations is easily justified.

Backup and restore must be run on the host station and the only way to access them was by running nBackup.

The two new service actions now enabling nBackup backup and restore to be requested through the Services API are:

isc_action_svc_nbak - incremental nbackup

isc_action_svc_nrest - incremental database restore

The parameter items are:

isc_spb_nbk_level - backup level (integer)

isc_spb_nbk_file - backup file name (string)

isc_spb_nbk_no_triggers - option to suppress database triggers