Same here. Our largest is about 130 GB and stores approximately 800,000
images (TIFF and PDF). We use rsync to copy the databases around to a
central backup server to be backed up to tape and also to be sanitized
of personal information and made available to our developers for test
databases.

-steve

Stephen Boyd wrote:

>
> We do exactly the same thing as you are proposing. We have it
> installed at about 30 sites around the US. Our largest DB is about
> 200GB. We did all this long before nbackup came along, so we wrote our
> own backup utility to do the incremental backups. We have run this on
> everything from Interbase 5.x to Firebird 1.5.3. It all works like a
> charm.
>
> Database recoveries tend to be a slow, slow, slow process though. We
> can recover smaller databases (4-8GB) in a couple of hours. The 200GB
> ones tend to take a day or two.
>
>