At 02:43 PM 28/02/2003 +0000, you wrote:

>The garbage collection is only done on source database, the gbak file will
>never containt 'garbage' records.
>Sometimes I find that the quickest way to garbage collect is to shutdown to
>single user mode, back up with out garbage collection, then restore and
>restart the database.

Amen to that. One retail installation I've had contact with couldn't do it
any other way. The application software is so bad that with gc on, backup
of even their typically small databases takes more than a night. If it is
run with users in session, everything virtually stops. So they gbak with
the -g switch, do a restore, fire up the restored database and, if all is
well, yesterday's database goes to heaven. (Not that I recommend this as
an exemplary design precept.. <g>)

Helen