I Did it with the gbak -t and the file size came out a lot better , ie
890MB compared to 3.5GB when using -nt



Seems a rather large leap



From: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:firebird-support@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Milan Babuskov
Sent: 17 July 2008 15:46
To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [***SPAM*** Score/Req: 5.4/4.0] RE: [firebird-support] GBAK
Backup Size



Andrew Stuart wrote:

> Whats the GUI doing that's different to our batch file
>
> Gbak -backup user pass -nt db dbbkup

GUI is using service API. To do that with gbak, add -SE switch to gbak
command.

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