We back up a 24 GB Firebird 2.1.5 database nightly on an High CPU Extra
Large EC2 instance with the fdb located on EBS. Takes 39 minutes and we
have an encryption layer on top of the file system. We do not use the
loopback interface, instead we reference the fdb by direct file location
and use the flags of -b -v -t -y (we like to log the results).

I hope that helps!

-steve

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On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 9:29 AM, Nick Upson <nu@...> wrote:

> incremental backup is not recommended in firebird 2.1.5 under significant
> load, I wish I could
>
>
> On 11 April 2013 14:27, Ricardo Uzcategui <ricardouven@...> wrote:
>
> > **
> >
> >
> > Hi.
> >
> > My experience is using SSD sata III 6BG IO speed with best results (in a
> > mac bookpro with 16 gb ram). and, are you considering to use incremental
> > backup?
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 8:14 AM, Norman Dunbar <Norman@...
> > >wrote:
> >
> >
> > > Ahem ...
> > >
> > > On 11/04/13 13:26, Norman Dunbar wrote:
> > >
> > > > I've updated the gbak manual to reflect the use of -g[arbage_collect]
> > > > and -se[rvice] to speed up backups and restores, by adding a couple
> of
> > > > sections explaing their use.
> > >
> > > Obviously, I didn't include -g[arbage_collect] in the restore section!
> > >
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Norm.
> > >
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