Hoi all,

Not a very urgent question at all but one that has kept me curious :-)

Please see below a list of backups of a Firebird 1.5.1 database that is
currently not in use (the db has moved to another machine). The
automatic backup procedure was still running...

How is it possible that the resulting outputfile of gbak is different in
size? Intended behaviour?

cheers,
Jan

-r-------- 1 root root 2916084600 Dec 14 12:41 20051214.fbk.gz
-r-------- 1 root root 2916084933 Dec 18 00:54 20051218.fbk.gz
-r-------- 1 root root 2916084933 Dec 25 00:48 20051225.fbk.gz
-r-------- 1 root root 2916084613 Jan 1 00:49 20060101.fbk.gz
-r-------- 1 root root 2916084933 Jan 8 00:57 20060108.fbk.gz
-r-------- 1 root root 2916084933 Jan 15 01:01 20060115.fbk.gz

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