General info about the sybase BSM.

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Note: The Sybase BSM is only a storage manager for the Sybase Backup Server. The BSM will start the backup or restore processes, & will not exit until the process finishes -- although monitoring the processes thru nwadmin or nsradmin will report completion before either nsrsybsv/nsrsybrc have finished. Some tips the FAQ maintainer learned the hard way:

1. nsrsybsv/nsrsybrc must use an account that a) has operator or sa roles, and b) has permission to use the database that will be backed up. The executables need to do a select on the database to see if the logs and the data are on different segments and an incremental backup is permissable. If the database is contained on contiguous segments -- or within one -- then nsrsybsv/nsrsybrc will start without error.
2. The value of $SYBASE must be identical on the server backed up and on the target server. This variable is the path to the location of the interfaces file.
3. Many error messages come directly from the Sybase Backup Server. These are listed at http://sybooks.sybase.com