Daniel Rail wrote:

>>
> It's possible to omit garbage collection when performing a backup.
> And, by not doing the garbage collection during backup, the garbage
> will also be backed up, and when performing the restore with that
> backup, the garbage will also be restored.

No it won't.


Gbak backs up the version of each record that was committed when the
backup started. If it's doing garbage collection, it then looks for old
versions of the record that are no longer of use to any active
transaction and causes them to be removed. But it never backs up those
old versions, so it certainly can't restore them.


Regards,


Ann