Subject Re: [firebird-support] Re: Max Transaction ID
Author Kjell Rilbe
Ann W. Harrison skriver:
> On 2/14/2011 4:02 PM, Kjell Rilbe wrote:
>> Ann W. Harrison skriver:
>>> You might look at developing some way to track changes that
>>> happen during a backup/restore and apply them after the restore
>>> completes.
>>
>> Interesting proposition. Hmm... Can gbak run on a DB file that's locked
>> with nbackup? In that case, maybe it would be possible to combine gbak
>> and the diff file created by nbackup?
>
> You can't mix gbak and nbackup that way because nbackup is physical
> page images which would create havoc when applied to a newly created
> database that is the output of gbak -create. But something along
> those lines - say a separate database or a log that holds changes
> made during a backup so they can be replayed on the recreated database.

Yes, I meant only to use the nbackup diff file as the means of creating
a log, but I guess it would be rather difficult (perhaps impossible) to
interpret that "log" to be able to apply the changes to a DB restored
with gbak.

Kjell
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