Subject | RE: [Firebird-general] Managing Firebird databases |
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Author | Thomas Steinmaurer |
Post date | 2004-11-15T19:09:11Z |
Hi Sean,
Regards,
Thomas
> > > In general NBackup would also be faster because;What it already does. ;-)
> > >
> > > - 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?
Regards,
Thomas