Hi Barry,

> I have inherited a database that was not maintained for some time.
> Unfortunately the designer also designed it to create a huge amount
> of uneeded audit records (18 million records). The single file DB is
> approching 3.7gig and is about to run out of room.
>
> 3 weeks ago I was able to backup the entire DB.
>
> I then deleted the offending 18M rows
>
> I then tried to do a backup and the process ran for nearly 48 hours
> before I had to kill it. The CPU usage goes straight to 100% and
> stays there. I finaly had to kill it because the customer needed to
> print from this machine (another great idea by someone to put the
> print que's for the site on this machine).

If you want to create a backup "just" for a restore, turn OFF
"garbage collection" when doing the backup.

With regards,

Martijn Tonies
Database Workbench - developer tool for InterBase, Firebird, MySQL & MS SQL
Server.
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