Joe:

1) The database can grow in size if you use blob and change the Page Size in
the restore. But the difference is so little (6Kb), that I think you
shouldn't worry about it.

2) The message is telling you that you must have just one connection to
validate the database. You have two or more connections using the database.
Try to put the database in single mode first.

Artur

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Martinez" <joe@...>
To: "Interbase Support" <ib-support@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 9:04 PM
Subject: [ib-support] Backup and Validataion issues


> I got the following email from a customer of mine:
>
> >I decided that I should try to back the file up again - the
> >curiosity of a pc guy, I wanted to see how much the file had
> compressed. Two
> >problems: first, after backing up and restoring, the database size
> actually GREW
> >- from 4249kB to 4255kB.
> >
> >But the bigger problem was that I got an ERROR message when I tried to
> >Validate the database, before backing it up. The message was:
> > Error trying to validate the integrity of the db.
> > - bad parameters on attach or create db - secondary server
> attachments
> >cannot validate db.
>
> So, does anyone know why:
>
> 1) The file would actually GROW from doing a backup and restore?
>
> 2) What does that validation error mean?
>
> He's using FB 0.9.4, and using IBConsole to back up and validate.
>
> -Joe
>