The online, hot catalog method can be performed while regular backup activity takes place.

It runs per a policy and is virtually transparent to the customer. Set up the policy by using either the Catalog Backup Wizard or the Policy Wizard.

Either wizard automatically includes all the necessary catalog files to include the database files (NBDB and BMRDB) and any catalog configuration files (vxdbms.conf, server.conf, databases.conf).

The online, hot catalog allows an administrator to recover either the entire catalog or pieces of the catalog. (For example, the databases separately from the image catalog.)

It offers an incremental backup. For Sybase SQL Anywhere, an incremental backup means a backup of the transaction log only. Transaction logs are managed automatically, truncated after each successful backup.