Raymond,

r> Just to note... I aborted the frozen gbak via ctrl-c and for grins I
r> ran gfix -v -f on the db (again no errors) and then I reran gbak and
r> it froze again at the exact same spot...

r> I ran it in verbose mode so I saw the table name... can I run a
r> more "strong" or complete gfix just on this table... or is there
r> anything else that I can do??

At this point I'd run gbak with the -g switch, try a restore and if
all goes well ditch the old database and use the newly restored one.

Ciao
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Nando Dessena
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