>>From: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com

[mailto:firebird-support@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Thomas
Steinmaurer

>>> Here's a related question for you - as I looked at our script for

v> 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.


But what if you are *not* replacing the database?