kimon_the_athenian2 wrote:

> Only way I can do it now is
> 1) backup database
> 2) restore the backup to a temporary database
> 3) connect to temp database and delete the computed info
> 4) backup again
>
> Maybe steps 1 and 2 could be replaced by copying the database file to
> a new file but I guess simply copying an online database is not safe.
> Or is it?

It is not.

> Is there some other way for making a copy of an online database?

You can do a metadata-only backup (gbak option -m) and use some
data-pump tool to copy only the data you really need in backup.

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