You can't do what you wish by server configuration, what will almost do it is
to commit every transaction immediately. Every SQL statement would be
immediately followed by a commit. You may be able to get the same effect
by defining the connection, that's not an area I known well enough to comment
on.

Gbak is for taking backups of your database in a controlled and consistant
way, copying the file at the operating system level can give you a broken
database.

article <004601c337a9$1105a850$910311ac@simba>, Bisma Jayadi wrote:

> So, my question is, how to configure my Firebird server or my database
> in order to get persistent database file size and performance? Or for
> precisely, turn off the record delta mechanism of Firebird. And, last
> question, what can I do with gbak?
>

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