> If so is there any way I can do this faster another time?
>
>
> Yes, take a look at nbackup - physical backup utility provided since
> v2.1 (there is a good paper about it in FB project Documentation). But
> the speed comes with a price. gbak does logical backups (only metadata
> and your data) so after restore you'll get compact, optimized "healthy"
> database, while database restored from nbackup is exact physical copy of
> your original database including all garbage etc.
>

You can also create a shadow database and activate it.

Best regards,

Karsten

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Karsten Rolfs
ORESTES Lizenzvertriebsges.mbH

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