> Early last year, after a bout with a corrupted database, I implemented
> a nightly backup/restore, and then run gfix -v -f against the newly
> restored database. This process ensures a one-day old roll back in
> the case of an emergency.
>
> Now that the database is 21GB, the gfix portion of the process is
> taking over an hour. I'm wondering whether this is a redundant
> function, since the database has just been successfully restored?
>
> A simple question - is there any chance that a newly restored database
> could be anything less than 'perfect'?
>
> tia,
>
> Bob M..

so slim that gfix probably won't show it anyway. Restore is even more
thorough. I wouldn't have been doing the gfix at all.
Alan