> Hello!
>
> Thank you for your answer!
>
> Yes, our application is a conversion tool and it is fully automated
> (so that the users may not know how to create backups for FB
> databases). Also it is used to convert the databases with huge amount
> of data; using DDL commands and UPDATE queries all the process of
> conversion may last about 7-8 hours (though the conversion is partial
> due to described error) and if we'd used your solution all the
> process may last about a week or more and that is not acceptable.
>
> The workaround with reconnection is better than that but maybe there
> is something better?
>
>

Hi

Sorry no better suggestions here. However the datapump only takes about
an hour on 1.7GB of data, our largest user (on an average machine).
Although about 800Mb of that is Binary image data.


Rob Martin
Software Engineer

phone +64 03 377 0495
fax +64 03 377 0496
web www.chreos.com

Wild Software Ltd