At 08:26 AM 6/9/2004, Brenden Walker wrote:

>I've got a 5gig gbk ... that I attempted to restore. GBAK reports
>that it's compressed, but when I look at the file in a hex editor part of
>the file in the beginning ...

The first part of a backup is the contents of the system tables. That's
probably what looks uncompressed. Gbak restores the schema first then
the data.

>Are there any utilities that can validate proper format of an IB or FB
>backup file?

Unfortunately, the only one is gbak. What errors are you getting? What
does the output look like when you restore with the -v switch?


Regards,


Ann