Kjell,

> > 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.

As Ann said, nbackup and gbak are incompatible backup solutions.

The nbackup data can only be applied to the original database. -- it stores full pages, not data rows.


Sean