--- In ib-support@y..., "Theo Bebekis" <teo@e...> wrote:

> API Guide, page 208, Services API restore arguments,
> TABLE 12. 4 Services API database restore arguments,
> states
>
> isc_spb_res_length
> "The length in pages of the restored database file;
> must not exceed 2 gigabytes"
>
> Since multiple files can be defined I believe that
> the correct formulation should be : " The length in
> pages of _a_ restored database file". Am I wrong?
>
> Why the limit of the 2 gigabytes? I thought database
> file limits are imposed by the type of file system
> in use (FAT32, NTFS, etc). Anyway, are there any file size
> limits when restoring a multi-file database?
>

Theo, you read description of 32bitIO builds behaviour. If you use
64bitIO build, file size is practically unlimited. On Linux we have
only 32bit builds now, so size of single-file database is limited to
2Gb and each file of multy-file one too.

Best regards, Alexander V.Nevsky.