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Article #239Re: Some GDB questions
From: Dan Palley
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 21:29
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 21:29
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"FrankW" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message news:43f2403b@newsgroups.borland.com... > Hi, > > 1) I often copy .gdb from Linux server to Windows XP and backup/restore > then copy back the .gdb to linux server, it seems running fine, any side > effect of that? You run the risk of corrupting the database and the copy if people are accessing it at the same time. Don't copy the database if you can back it up instead. > 2) When .gdb size is bigger than 1G, backup usually takes time, what is > the good approach to backup? using a cron job in linux and run the gbak > while .gdb is being accessed by other programs? advisable? The Interbase backup routines are designed to run against an active database (hot backups). There are some settings, such as disabling garbage collection, that can speed up the backup time. Dan
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X-Google-Thread: 106772,1946b12c7217820 X-Google-Attributes: gid106772,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit From: "Dan Palley" <dan@trams.com> Newsgroups: borland.public.interbase.opensource References: <43f2403b@newsgroups.borland.com> Subject: Re: Some GDB questions Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 13:29:38 -0800 Lines: 23 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2670 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2670 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Response NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.102.131.250 Message-ID: <43f24b22$1@newsgroups.borland.com> X-Trace: newsgroups.borland.com 1139952418 66.102.131.250 (14 Feb 2006 13:26:58 -0700) Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news4.google.com!news2.volia.net!newsfeed.utanet.at!reader.uucp.at!newsfeed.uucp.at!news.uucp.at!newsgroups.borland.com!not-for-mail