> Each shop, for example a restaurant has its own local database on the > computer the Point Of Sale software is running on. > The shops has ADSL connection with 1MBit upload speed and the database > is around 50 MB and growing every day. > Uploading such file to our server with this bandwidth disturbs other > Internet activities and at night they turn of the system.
* Who is the initiator of the backup? You, remotely? Or a scheduled job at the customer? * I guess there is a business use case why you want to transfer it onto your server once per day? Btw, you can use gbak in a way so that the backup process completely runs on the target server, even if gbak was invoked remotely. -- With regards, Thomas Steinmaurer http://www.upscene.com/ Professional Tools and Services for Firebird FB TraceManager, IB LogManager, Database Health Check, Tuning etc.
