Subject RE: [firebird-support] IB5.6 to FB1.5 Restore taking a long time
Author Alan McDonald
> I am upgrading a client from IB5.6 to FB1.5. Last night their regular
> Sunday night rebuild (backup and restore) took place with the
> restore taking
> one hour on a 4 gig database. After installing Firebird 1.5, the
> FB restore
> from the same .gbk is taking 3.5 hours and is still not quite done (3.9
> gig). Is this typical for an IB to FB conversion to take this long? The
> backup was done with the -Transportable switch on.
>
> Bill Meaney

One hour seems very (too) fast to me. Do they end up using this restore or
is it just a test restore?
Alan