At 12:14 PM 4/08/2010, Theodore Zafiropoulos wrote:

>Hello,
>
>Just giving an update on the gbak process.
>
>The gbak finally completed. After deleting the 70 Million records and entering the following gbak command
>
>gbak -v -t -user SYSDBA -password "masterkey" DBNAME.FDB DBNAME.FBK
>
>this process took approx. 88 Hours to complete

Now I am curious as to whether you actually included the -b[ackup] switch in the original command....and also about those double quotes around the -password argument.

./heLen