Hi,

> I guess most of us know that making a raw copy of a database file is

rather unpredictable. So most of us (well, excluding me since I do not do
the backup) use gbak. Then your backup utility can make a copy of the
resulting .gbk file.

>
> How to ensure this backup is valid? Well, restore it and check that your

data is still there!

To another set of files, that is :)

Martijn Tonies
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