At 04:08 PM 24/10/2003 +0200, you wrote:

>Hi,
>
>quite often I create a backup on windows (with gbak.exe -b -v), and
>restore it on linux/unix with these switches (gbak -c -r -v).
>Note that I never used the -t(ransportable) switch, but it always worked
>well.
>
>Is this normal?
>Is it better to use -t always, also when backuping and restoring on the same
>platform?

I had always thought so, and thought it was some kind of enhancement magic
that our guys had done - but Ann H confirmed that a database can be
regarded as "native" when being moved from one Intel to another Intel. I
confess that I even transfer databases around my hybrid network using Samba.

h.