Symptom
- In Veritas Cluster Services (VCS), backup failing with "Can't open a connection to site 'SYB_BACKUP'"
- Two ASE servers running on in a VCS a failover pair
- Each server has a physical hostname and ip-address
- Each host has a virtual/floating hostname and ip-address
- ASE dataserver and backupserver's interface contains the floating hostname/ip-addess entries
- Dump fails with following error messages:
Msg 7205, Level 17, State 2:
Server 'servername', Line 1:
Can't open a connection to site 'SYB_BACKUP'. See the error log file in the ASE boot directory.
Msg 7205, Level 18, State 3:
Server 'servername', Line 1:
Can't open a connection to site 'SYB_BACKUP'. See the error log file in the ASE boot directory.
Msg 3220, Level 17, State 1:
Server 'servername', Line 1:
Could not establish communication with Backup Server 'SYB_BACKUP'. Please make sure that there is an entry in Sysservers for this server, and that the correct server is running.
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Environment
- SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise(ASE) all versions
- Veritas Cluster Services (VCS)
Product
Keywords
Cluster VCS Veritas failover floating ip-address backups backup , KBA , BC-SYB-ASE , Sybase ASE Database Platform (non Business Suite) , Problem
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