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Restoring old backup of Sybase

I have a client that is using a Sybase 5.0 server and gave me a backup of the server. (myBackup.db). Unfortunately, the consultant who wrote the application/ designed the db / installed the db many many moons ago (circa 1994) didn't leave them copies of the install disks, etc (or they were just plain lost). So I am trying to get this db up and running on Sybase ASE 12.5.2. I have never worked with sybase, so I am not even sure if it is possible to restore a database from ver 5 to ver 12. If anyone has any experience with this, or knows about the possibility I would appreciate it.

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Thanks guys.. I have never touched sybase before.. I thought sql anywhere was more of a developer tool (stored procedures debug, query analyzer, etc..).. I'll give it a shot and see if it works.

suryadip

Hello wcmcgr,

Well first you need to have a installable copy of Adaptive Server Anywhere. Once you install that product, using the ODBC connection connect to the Database (I mean the *.db file) .

Then you can use the Sybase product 'PowerDesigner' and Reverse Engineer the complete Database. In this way all your Database Structure will be in PowerDesigner Format.

After that you can connect to Sybase ASE through PowerDesigner and recreate the tables which will restore the original Database Structure which was in *.db format.

Hope this solution helps.

--- Suryadip