Jason Chapman wrote:

>
> As a GBK is just meta data and then the data streamed, and a FDB has
> additional space requirements for indices and the fact that records
> don't 100% fill the page space, DB's are bigger than backups.
>

Usually, but not always. Unless my memory is worse than usual, the
data in the backup is not compressed as it is when it's stored. A
database with lots of over sized fields and few indexes might be
bigger in a backup.

Regards

Ann