--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "Yaten Kou" <yaten@i...> wrote:

>
> hi list,
> i was trying multi-file database but i don't seem to be getting the
> behaviour that i'm expecting.
>
> below is a sample scenario to further illustrate my problem
>
> The command:
> gbak -c sample.fbk test-01.fdb 40960 test-02.fdb 40960 test-03.fdb 40960
> test-04.fdb
>
> The result:
> -rw------- 1 firebird firebird 535552 Nov 9 07:15 test-01.fdb
> -rw------- 1 firebird firebird 2048 Nov 9 07:15 test-02.fdb
> -rw------- 1 firebird firebird 2048 Nov 9 07:15 test-03.fdb
> -rw------- 1 firebird firebird 2048 Nov 9 07:15 test-04.fdb
>
>
> i was expecting a different result, i was expecting that test-01 to

test-03

> would be
> limited to 40960bytes (plus header) and test-04 would contain the

rest of

> the data.
>
> is that correct or i'm missing something?
>

The size you are specifying is not in bytes, but in database pages.
Database pages are by default 4K, so if you want 40960, then limit it
to 10000.

Out of curiousity, why are you limiting it to 40MB chunks? It doesn't
strike me as a limit of any recent OS.

Adam