Subject RE: [Firebird-general] Managing Firebird databases
Author Leyne, Sean
Thomas,

> > 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?

Correct.

What do you expect a *backup* utility to do?


Sean