Thanks,

Yes, the Win XP system restore feature is disabled, file extension is fdb.

I'm planning on a disk reorg tonight and trying a back up tomorrow and
see if that helps.

gerry

--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "Alan McDonald" <alan@m...>
wrote:

> > 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
>
> XP - do you have system restore feature disabled? Do you have file name
> extenstions of ".gdb"?
> If so, disable restore, and use another extension e.g. fdb
> Alan