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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ for Sybase Administrator's Guide
  3. Configuring NetBackup for Sybase
  4. NetBackup for Sybase environment variables
Veritas NetBackup™ for Sybase Administrator's Guide

NetBackup for Sybase environment variables

When a schedule runs, NetBackup sets environment variables for the scripts to use when performing the backup.

Table: Enviornment variables describes these environment variables.

Table: Enviornment variables

UNIX or Linux

Windows

Purpose

$SYBACKUP_SERVER
%SYBACKUP_SERVER%

Name of the NetBackup server.

$SYBACKUP_POLICY
%SYBACKUP_POLICY%

Name of the NetBackup policy.

$SYBACKUP_SCHED
%SYBACKUP_SCHED%

Name of the Automatic Backup schedule.

$SYBACKUP_SCHEDULED
%SYBACKUP_SCHEDULED%

Set to 1 if this is a scheduled backup (Automatic Backup).

$SYBACKUP_USER_INITIATED
%SYBACKUP_USER_INITIATED%

Set to 1 if this is a user-initiated backup (Application Backup backup).

Note:

The $SYBACKUP_POLICY (%SYBACKUP_POLICY%) and $SYBACKUP_SCHED (%SYBACKUP_SCHED%) variables are set only if the backup is initiated from the server, either automatically by the NetBackup scheduler or manually through the NetBackup Administration Console.

More Information

About the backup, restore, and load scripts for NetBackup for Sybase on Windows

About the backup, restore, and load scripts for NetBackup for Sybase on UNIX

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