I think you meant Sybase.  ServerFree backups of Oracle are very 
possible.  ServerFree backups of Sybase are another thing.  I'm not sure if 
they'll ever be possible.  Sybase doesn't currently support proxy copy of 
their data files during backup.  The only way to backup Sybase with a 
commercial product is to do a 'dump database,' and take the stream of data 
it gives you.  In order to be able to support ServerFree backups, Sybase 
would have to be able to just give NBU a list of files to go back up on its 
own (proxy copy).  I don't believe it can do it.  (Neither can its cousin 
SQL Server, BTW.)

At 08:49 AM 8/16/2002 -0600, Donaldson, Mark wrote:

>I can say that server-free backups of Oracle are not currently 
>possible.  I checked a few days ago.  Perhaps Oracle by 1Q03 but I 
>wouldn't hold my breath on that one...
>
>-M
>  -----Original Message-----  From:   Sekhar Pulamarasetti 
> [<mailto:sekhar AT sanovi DOT com>mailto:sekhar AT sanovi DOT com]  Sent:   
> Friday, 
> August 16, 2002 7:10 AM  To:     Veritas NB Mailing 
> List  Subject:        [Veritas-bu] NB4.5 and Server free backups
>
>Hi,
>
>One of our customers has Sybase 12 running on a Solaris 8 server. Customer 
>is using HDS 9960 storage and is planning to use Netbackup 4.5. Is server 
>free backup possible at the sybase database level using Netbackup 
>4.5?  There is a server-free agent for Solaris in Netbackup but no 
>server-free agent for Sybase database.  Is it true that server-free agent 
>for NB is good only for filesystem level server-free backups? And to 
>perform server-free backups of a given database, is the corresponding 
>database server-free agent necessary?  Any help on this is greatly 
>appreciated.
>
>Thanks  -sekhar  ---
>
>sekhar AT sanovi DOT com