At 12:25 07/24/03, Alexander wrote:

>--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Scott Taylor <scott@d...>
>wrote:
>
> > 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.

Wait a minute, this article says it does less cleanup:
http://ibphoenix.com/main.nfs?a=ibphoenix&l=;IBPHOENIX.KNOWLEDGEBASE;ID='134'

Which is it? Don't I want to take out the garbage?