Subject Re: [firebird-support] Re: Database compress/purge
Author Scott Taylor
At 12:25 07/24/03, you wrote:
>--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Scott Taylor <scott@d...>
>wrote:
> > FB1 would be very handy on SCO, do you have the binaries? I can't
>get it
> > to compile on SCO.
>
> No, I migrated to Linux to use FB and find it even more suitable.
>Less poblems with semaphores for example. AFAIR SCO port is dropped
>together with other out of date OS.

Hey! lol
I just build a brand new OSR5.0.7 server, they are still working out the
bugs in OSR5 and Unixware will never be out-of-date, just a little behind
the times. =P

I dare you to go to news:comp.unix.sco.misc and say that. lol


> > What is the proper command to use to perform a backup without
>garbage
> > collection? I thought that was a restore function. Grr...
>
>switch -garbage_collect. It significantly speeds up backup process and
>in case of some corruptions related to urecognizable garbage versions
>is the only way to backup.

So is this the best way then:
/opt/interbase/bin/gbak -B -G -T -USER blah blah blah
/opt/interbase/bin/gbak -C -R -V -USER blah blah blah someotherfile

Cheers.