> ---In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, <fabianch@...> wrote :

>

> We noticed the results of restoring with NBackup a 7 Gb database is 50
>

megabytes shorter in size than the original DB. Is this a problem? Or it

>

does not matter? Both Db are equal?

  Engine expands database file by relatively big chunks, in advance, therefore some pages at the
tail of the database file could be never used at backup moment. nbackup doesn't include such
pages into backup file.

  If you want to be sure, run gfix -v on restored database.

Regards,
Vlad