Hi,

At March 22, 2005, 10:48, Paul Reeves wrote:

> Garbage is never backed up, so it can't be restored. Disabling garbage
> collection means time saved as old versions are not cleaned out of the
> database. This speeds up the backup if the intention is to restore and
> replace the existing database. If, however, the intention is just make an
> archive and keep the existing database running the garbage collection is
> a good housekeeping thing.

> Don't forget that gbak is just a read-only snapshot transaction. It can't
> see garbage any more than any other transaction.

Thanks for clearing that out for me Paul. I'll remember this
information.

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Best regards,
Daniel Rail
Senior Software Developer
ACCRA Consultants Inc. (www.accra.ca)
ACCRA Med Software Inc. (www.filopto.com)