Morning Thomas,

> I can't recall if gbak returns an exit error code if something weird
> happens,

On Linux, it returns zero for all ok and 1 for something bad happened.

> but to check if a backup is valid, the only thing you can do is
> to restore the backup and see if this process goes through. This is
> something I do for critical databases/backups.

Always good advice. There is always a possibility that the backup
worked, but the file could still be corrupt. :-(

Cheers,
Norm.

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