Hello, Rick!

Tuesday, March 13, 2012, 8:10:22 PM, you wrote:

RD> We test restoring all our backups. Last night, this happened. We
RD> compared the DDL of our production system with a week of backups, and
RD> didn't find any changes in column definitions. We are starting another
RD> restore with verbose logging. Any ideas as to what could have happened
RD> or what we should be looking for?

RD> gbak -se it-test:service_mgr -use_all_space -mode read_only -r
RD> /opt/firebird/db/database.fbk /opt/firebird/db/database.fdb
RD> gbak: ERROR: arithmetic exception, numeric overflow, or string
RD> truncation

you forgot -v option. Without it you can't see where error happened.

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Dmitry Kuzmenko, www.ib-aid.com