Alan,
My logic was that I am using this backup and restore on the same machine, and I read somewhere that nontransportable backup will be smaller in size.

But yes I understand that if the user decides to move the data from Windows to Linux I should set the flags to transportable.
Let me think about making the change
Thanks

gk



------------------Original Message-----------
From : "Alan McDonald" <alan@...>
To : <ib-support@yahoogroups.com>
Subject : RE: [ib-support] Advise on setting flags for backup and restore
Why do you backup as nontransportable? I have only ever used transportable
Alan

-----Original Message-----
From: GOVINDKRISHNA [mailto:gkrishna@...]
Sent: Wednesday, 22 January 2003 9:00 PM
To: ib-support@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [ib-support] Advise on setting flags for backup and restore



Right now my flag settings on the backup is
IgnoreChecksums,NonTransportable

and the flag setting for restore is
NoShadow,NoValidityCheck,OneRelationAtATime,CreateNewDB,Replace


Any suggestions/ recommendations on what should be the flags for this kind
of usage.

This is a very low cost app and I am willing to put in any kind of effort
when it comes to development but I really want to make support at customer
location ZERO.