At 6/29/2001 10:10 AM, you wrote:

>I like flexibility. Introducing Gbak (aka burp) control language
>would also allow select backup of certain tables, some table just
>as meta data, and some tables fully populated. Probably make it
>good for a zillion useful things.

I, for one, would find an immediate use for it. My current database
structure has multiple configuration/lookup tables which remain fairly
static, with relatively few dynamic 'data' tables. When duplicating the
database for new customers, I have to make a metadata backup first, restore
it, and then copy the static info from one db to another. Your proposed
modification would make my life much easier.

Bob M..