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

> > > 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?

What it already does. ;-)

Regards,
Thomas