At 09:48 PM 15-01-02 -0700, you wrote:

>The fastest way I found and never failed this far for over
>an year, is turn all FB server activities off (most drastically stop
>services) and run 'command xcopy database.gdb databaseback.gdb' ,
>DO NOT use 'command copy' that fails. Just wrote a small application
>that does this automatically at a certain time and datetimestamps the
>backup. All done in at most a minute. But maybe your application
>doesn't allow this approach.

Hans,
All very well, but this style of backup copies the database "as is" and you don't get any cleanup of garbage, releasing of page space ex deletes, detection of corruption, etc. How do you arrange to do database housekeeping with this scheme?

regards,
Helen


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