Rich Pinder wrote:

>
> If you want to move a FB database between two Win32 machines (both
> running same Version of FB), can you not just shut down the DB, copy
> file, and start it up ?
>
> Is there good reason (other than garbage collection) to use GBAK instead ??

1) If you use gbak, you don't need to shut down the source database.
2) A newly restored database has dense records and indexes.
3) A newly restored database starts with a new (low) transaction id


Regards,


Ann