Sorry for long silense, i'm a buzy with other things...

> Thank you for your time Vlad. You wrote:
> 
>>     Interesting. Could you provide DDL of table and index ?
> 
> CREATE TABLE MATBEW
> (
>  MSEG_MATNR Varchar(18) NOT NULL,
>  MSEG_WERKS Varchar(4) NOT NULL,
>  MSEG_LGORT Varchar(4) NOT NULL,
>  MSEG_MBLNR Varchar(10) NOT NULL,
>  MSEG_MJAHR Varchar(4) NOT NULL,
>  MSEG_ZEILE Varchar(4) NOT NULL,
>  MSEG_CHARG Varchar(10),
>  MSEG_BWART Varchar(3),
>  MSEG_SHKZG Varchar(1),
>  MSEG_SOBKZ Varchar(1),
>  MSEG_XAUTO Varchar(1),
>  MSEG_KZZUG Varchar(1),
>  MSEG_KZVBR Varchar(1),
>  MSEG_MEINS Varchar(3),
>  MSEG_MENGE Double precision,
>  MSEG_ERFME Varchar(3),
>  MSEG_ERFMG Double precision,
>  MSEG_BSTME Varchar(3),
>  MSEG_BSTMG Double precision,
>  MKPF_BUDAT Date,
>  MKPF_CPUDT Date,
>  MSEG_LIFNR Varchar(10),
>  MSEG_EBELN Varchar(10),
>  MSEG_EBELP Varchar(5),
>  MSEG_WEMPF Varchar(12),
>  MSEG_AUFNR Varchar(12),
>  MSEG_KUNNR Varchar(10),
>  MSEG_KDAUF Varchar(10),
>  MSEG_KDPOS Varchar(6),
>  MSEG_KDEIN Varchar(4),
>  MSEG_WAERS Varchar(5),
>  MSEG_DMBTR Double precision,
>  MKPF_BLDAT Date,
>  CONSTRAINT MATBEW_PK PRIMARY KEY
> (MSEG_MATNR,MSEG_WERKS,MSEG_LGORT,MSEG_MBLNR,MSEG_MJAHR,MSEG_ZEILE)
> );
> 
> The additional index (from the other DB):
> 
> CREATE INDEX IDX_MATBEW1 ON MATBEW (MSEG_WERKS);
> 
>> Also tell us what is charset of database.
> 
> It is not defined. 

    So, all key fileds is VARCHAR with charset NONE, correct ? Is it possible 
to have zero 
bytes in data values of any of the key fields ? What about leading or trailing 
zero's ?

> I know that this is not recommended. I was already
> thinking of defining it to be UTF-8 and than making backup and restore.
> 
> Also, I was today thinking of defining 6 indices, each based on only one
> field of the current primary key and see what happens.
> 
> Are these tests worth trying?

    Sure.
 
>>     Is it reproducible ? I.e. if you restore same backup few times it have
>> missed entries every time ?
> 
> I believe this was done, but shall try to do it once more until weekend
> and report here. (My colleague and I have done numerous independent tests
> on various machines last week.)

    Any news ?
 
>> What if you restore same backup at the another machine ?
> 
> This was definitely done. No improvement.
> 
> Please tell what would be your preferred FB version for these backup and
> restore tests. We have different versions on different machines, so I
> could see what can be done.

    2.1.4 or 2.5.0, i.e. latest official release of 2.1 or 2.5

Regards,
Vlad

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