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From: "Nando Dessena" <nando@...>
To: <firebird-support@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 2:33 PM
Subject: Re: [firebird-support] Re: sweep taking a long time


> Sándor,
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> S> And what happens to the OLD database, if I let FB to do the garbage
> S> collection?
>
> it will be garbage-collected as a result of gbak visiting all records in
> the database. This has a good effect on performance since it frees
> pages for reuse and reduces the number of record back-versions.
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> S> Because I had a corrupt database, which I could not back up. (it
> stopped
> S> backup with error messages). Then I instinctly turned off garbage
> S> collection, and FB did a corerct backup, which I can the restore. The
> DB
> S> have been working correctly since then.
>
> I am not an expert in this area, and anyway without seeing what error
> messages you got it is difficult to guess.
>
> Ciao
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> Nando Dessena
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