NetWorker: Sybase backups fail "Locale name "en_US.utf8" doesn't exist in your locales.dat file"

Add the localization information for the specific platform to resolve the issue. Below is an example of localization information for Linux architecture:

[linux]
    locale = FRENCH, french, iso_1
    locale = fr, french, iso_1
    locale = fr_BE, french, iso_1
    locale = fr_BE.437, french, cp437
    locale = en_US.UTF-8, us_english, utf8

Adding the locale for Linux platform fixed the issue for Sybase backup that required en_US.UTF-8.

Sybase backups fail with the below error:

"Locale name "en_US.utf8" doesn't exist in your $SYBASE/locales/locales.dat file"

The locales file called locales.dat provides platform-specific locale information in a Sybase proprietary format. This file associates locale names with languages, character sets, and collating sequences.

The reason is that the localization file is not updated with parameter "en_US.utf8" for specific platform. The file $SYBASE/locales/locales.dat should contain the below parameter for the platform on which the Sybase Database is deployed. There are multiple platforms like Posix, HP, Linux, macosx, and others, for which the localization information should be updated for the specific platform.

Ensure that the locale for the specific platform is updated.

[linux]        
        locale = en_US.437, us_english, cp437
        locale = en_US.850, us_english, cp850
        locale = us_english.utf8, us_english, utf8         
        locale = en_US.UTF-8, us_english, utf8           
        locale = en_US.ISO8859-1, us_english, iso_1
        locale = en_US.ISO8859-15, us_english, iso15
        locale = us_EN, us_english, iso_1
        locale = C, us_english, iso_1
        locale = default, us_english, iso_1

The locales file called locales.dat provides platform-specific locale information in a Sybase proprietary format. This file associates locale names with languages, character sets, and collating sequences.

How it is used.

Open Client applications use locales.dat to determine what localization information to load. The locales.dat file directs Open Client applications to localization information, but it does not contain localized messages or character set information.