I am just now learning Firebird and loaded a test data base with about
1.3 gig of data on latest Firebird 1.5 on a Windows XP machine with 3
ghz processor and 1 gig of cpu memory.

I first used an interactive utility but it was slow so I killed it and
tried gbak after re booting.

I used gbak from a command prompt to back up the data base from one
disk drive to a second, afer 6 hours I killed the process. I checked
frequently in the Windows explorer and saw that the backup file was
slowly expanding - after g hrs it was around 50 meg.

MS SQL Server backs up the same test database in about 5 minutes??

Any ideas??

Thanks,

Gerry



--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "Paulius Pazera"
<paulius@g...> wrote:

> Hi there,
>
>
> what could be wrong that db backup takes the same amount of time as

restore,

> which is almost 3 times slower than ib 6.0.2 classic on the same box?
>
> ib602classic backup: ~20min
> ib602classic restore: ~54min (CPUs almost idle)
>
> fb15classic backup: ~50min
> fb15classic restore: ~59min
>
> it seems that backup on windows (fb 1.5 classic) is ok. Any way to

make the

> backup on linux faster?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Paulius