On 28 Sep 2006 at 10:38, Zoran Zivkovic wrote:

>We have IB 6.0.1.6 ib server on Win98 PC.

You are adrenalin-guys, i see...

>OK, I hope I described problem good. Questions:
>1. Is it OK for BACKUP with Garbage colection to last so long on this
>table?

Yes.

>2. Is there some other way to "import" these data from remote
>points, so we could avoid these long delete/import/backup procedures ?

Import only changed data (make your importing application compare
"yesterday" file and "today" one before importing into DB). Thus you
get rid of table cleaning.

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SY, Dimitry Sibiryakov.