I second this...
I'd love to know the strategey used by people with TerraByte databases for
backup purposes. If replication is the only means then fine... but if there
is no replication on databases of this size, how do people manage????
Alan

-----Original Message-----
From: Lester Caine [mailto:lester@...]
Sent: Tuesday, 21 January 2003 8:55 PM
To: ib-support@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [ib-support] Max. DatabaseSize 64-Bit I/O

> Three years (and two days) ago Bill Karwin wrote "InterBase's theoretical
> maximum is 32TB I believe." I don't know whether that has been increased
> since, but I would be very surprised if Firebird had reduced that size. So
> yes, in theory you can have more than 980GB in a database. Though I

haven't

> heard of anyone who has actually tried it...

As an aside - why would someone want so much information
locked in the one file.

Yes Firebird ( and others ) can handle that ammount of data,
but should we not be looking at improvements to Firebird
that help to reduce the size of a single file ( or file
set), and as a result simplyify the backup problem. Perhaps
flat databases did have some advantages. One of the things I
do is - in essence - but the blob information in external
files. Then only the opdated files need backing up.

This is probably a thought for the developers list, but the
idea of managing 32Tb of data sent a shiver...

--
Lester Caine
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L.S.Caine Electronic Services


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