Hello Jan Bakuwel,

> 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?

Are you shure that the Backup file size is different ?
we only see the compressed file sizes here, so it might be as well the
filecompression programm ??

> -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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Mit freundlichen Grüssen / With best regards
Hannes Streicher