Announcing 'pipe' - a versatile plugin for Sybase backupservers [pipe]

[Mikhail T.]

http://libpipe.virtual-estates.com/

With this plugin the destination of your dump no longer has to be a named
file. It can now also be a stdin of an arbitrary command or a port on any
host on your network.

Similarly, an existing dump can be LOADed from stdout of a command or from a
port on any host.

Why would you want that? A number of possibilities open up:

* offload the CPU-intensive compression by running the
compression utility on another machine;
* archive dumps on another host without NFS issues;
* integrate with an off-site backup provider;
* encrypt dumps without unencrypted data ever touching
temporary storage;
* transfer databases from one server to another /directly/;
* use the included "sybdump" utility (open sourced) in your
own scripts, processing dumps without waiting for them
to finish...
* much more...

Free licenses are available to qualified individuals:

http://libpipe.virtual-estates.com/free/

(You must be active on Sybase forums to qualify.)

Today's price is only $9.99 per server, set to *double every week* until
$159.84 or even $319.68 -- as our confidence grows and wrinkles in the
ordering system and documentation get ironed out. Order yours now at:

http://libpipe.virtual-estates.com/order/

Follow up with questions/comments. Your feedback is greatly appreciated!

Thank you,

-mi

[Derek Asirvadem]

Post by Mikhail T.
Today's price is only $9.99 per server, set to *double every week* until
$159.84 or even $319.68 -- as our confidence grows and wrinkles in the
Your feedback is greatly appreciated!

Mikhail

I think this is brilliant, although I support the Sybase backup
encryption & compression, I mostly work on dedicated database machines,
and have need to move those two functions off the Db servers. I will
change my scripts (see thread 'ASE Backup strategy') to use your gear
for any client who uses it.

I know a few people blatantly do so, and set a bad example, but we are
not supposed to sell our wares on the newsgroups.