I am trying to sweep then to backup without failure.
However it seems a mend is required before a backup,
so I need to a mend.

What is the -g option?
I am using the Backup Service in IBOAdmin to do the backup
and not a call directly to gbak.

Regards,

Robert.

--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "Adam" <s3057043@...> wrote:
>
> > I am trying to run a
> > Sweep then a Mend then a BackUp.
>
> Why? The only reason you would run mend is to prepare the database
for
> backup if there has been corruption. Sweep is likely to fail if there
> is corruption. In fact if the corruption is in a backversion rather
> than the most recent version, then backup may be successful with a
> simple -g switch.
>
> What are you trying to achieve here? A backup? A validation?
> Corruption repair?
>
> Adam
>