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From: "Ann W. Harrison" <aharrison@...>

> > Could a switch be added to gbak to restore only metadata (-no_data)? That

would

> > help, in a case such as this, where they may not have a separate usable

backup

> > for their constraint metadata.
> >
>
> You mean gbak -m -c foo.fdb foo.fbk ?
>
> Been there for decades.

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Interesting, thanks! I always see -m listed in the "backup options" section,
separate from the "restore options", so I never thought to try it that way! (This
includes the docs at http://www.firebirdsql.org/manual/gbak-cmdline.html , not
just 3rd party docs.)

-Philip