On Wed, 16 May 2007, ik wrote:
> On 5/16/07, Graeme Geldenhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > What DBMS where you using? Firebird has no such issue. I store loads
> > of PNG and JPG images in binary Blob fields. Backup and Restore works
> > perfectly.
>
> I used Interbase 6.1. The problem was that gbak created a corrupted
> backup file, that we could not restore, but we also saved the sql
> dump, but we could not restore it...
Hehe :-)
ALWAYS test your backups. When backing up: immediatly restore to see if
the backup is OK. Simpe rule, great benefits :-)
>
> At my current work I'm working with MySQL clusters that the only way
> to backup the data is by having sql dump.
Unfortunately MySQL also generates "wrong" sql dumps at times.
I learned that very quickly with the above rule...
Michael.
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