bill wrote:

> As one who also still runs IB5.6 (on SCO) - this is scary ...
> Is there any archiving process running ?

No

> Does a verbose 'gbak -b -v' show that any records are written ?

No

> The backup that happens from the batch file ... does it produce an
> historical log ?

Should have been two copies - but the customer was not bothering to do
the nightly checks - until it failed to start ;)

> Does it also restore ? If it restores as well - I would look at that -
> perhaps along the line one of the restores failed ?

Only intended to use backup if they had a problem like this :)

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