On 10-9-2016 22:11, [email protected] [firebird-support] wrote: > I am running both gbak.exe and nbackup.exe on an FB3 server with Windows > 2012 R2 64 bits, 24 processor, 192 GB ram, the nbackup.exe level zero is > much faster than the gbak.exe (does not make any sense, it should take > about the same time as gbak), both running locally but connecting using > the super server (localhost:database_name); any ideas why gbak.exe is so > slow?
Your assumption is wrong, nbackup is expected to be a lot faster than gbak as it makes a physical backup of the database pages instead of a logical backup of the data in the database. Mark -- Mark Rotteveel
