> BTW are there plans to combine the backup and restore actions to one
> single reorg command??

Just redirect output of gbak to another gbak that will create new db:

GBAK -B MYDB.FDB stdout | GBAK -C stdin SHRINKEDDB.FDB

Note that stdin/stdout must be in lowercase.
Not aplicable to services api of course.

Ivan
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