The MS Sql server data and the Firebird database were both pumped from
MS Access. The both have the same tables and data.

I ran gfix and saw all kinds of corruption on the firebird database,
so I'm deleting the firebird database and will start over from scratch.

--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Aage Johansen <aagjohan@o...>
wrote:

> On Sat, 6 Mar 2004 01:51:43 +0000 (UTC), ggroper wrote:
>
> > ...
> > 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??
>
>
> I'm impressed - MS SQL server backing up a Firebird database (and
> fast). And on Linux!
>
> Seriously:
> Do you happen to know whether gbak was busy doing garbage collecting

while

> backing up?
> You could try to include the 'No garbage collecting' option while

testing,

> or do a sweep before running gbak.
>
>
> --
> Aage J.