> Here's a related question for you - as I looked at our script for
> doing nightly backups, I see a note that says:
>
> "do not use garbage collection (gbak -g) since we run a manual sweep
> every night"
>
> Do you know if that's true - we don't need to do garbage collection
> via gbak if we are running gfix -sweep?

Correct.

If the backup acts as an immediate replacement for the source database
after a restore, you also don't need to run a sweep on the source database.



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