Hi Sean,

> > <description of nifty NBackup features snipped>
> >
> > The backup features, especially the speed, sound wonderful. Should we
> > expect comparable performance on the restore side as well?
>
> Most definitely!!
>
> At the very least because there is no need to rebuild the database
> indexes!
>
> NBackup creates a backup of the database pages, not the data rows (which
> GBak does). Accordingly, the backup would contain the indexes at the
> time of backup, so the indexes would be in place on the restore.
>
> In general NBackup would also be faster because;
>
> - For image backups, there is no restore! The backup is already a full
> database.
>
> - For incremental backups, you need to start with a full/image backup
> and then apply the incrementals to it. Since the incrementals only
> contain pages which changed from the last backup, the restore will be
> VERY FAST.

Just to get it right, NBackup won't do any kind of
house-keeping at all?


Thanks,
Thomas Steinmaurer
LogManager Series - Logging/Auditing Suites supporting
InterBase, Firebird, Advantage Database and MS SQL Server
Upscene Productions
http://www.upscene.com