Todd,

> What does everyone else do for backups? Do they include the GDB file
> when backing up their data or do they exclude it and only do GBK
> (Interbase Backup) files.

do a gbak backup; try it out by doing a restore under a *different* gdb
file name; backup the gbk file and, if desired, the new gdb file too (it
allows to get back on line faster in case of failures).
Ciao
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