--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Ricardo Uzcategui <ricardouven@...> wrote:

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> i think it's a crazy operation... those index are forenkey and primary key
> live..
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> gbak backup data, not index data. when it's restore, restore data and
> re-create all index. even if all index are inactive.
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>

That sure is what I want to do: re-create all index even if they are inactive, but there is no option in gbak that does this, I can only deactivate indexes during restore (-I)
And the restored database must be read-only, so I can't activate the indexes after the restore.