red_october_canada wrote:

> According to the docs I've read, when I do a backup of a FB DB, every
> record has to be "read" and old versions dealt with, so, a backup
> inherently does a sweep. So if I back up twice a day, then I should
> never have to do a sweep?
>

A sweep does two things: it removes unneeded record versions and it
resets the "oldest interesting" transaction. Gbak only removes unneeded
record versions.


Regards,


Ann