AW: [firebird-support] NBackup Levels

2014-05-07 Thread Steffen Heil (Mailinglisten)
Hi I could simply create backups with incrementing levels, move the backup to the other server(s) and apply them there (that database is offline). However, I suspect there is a limit for the number of backup levels a database can have. You don't need a lot of backup levels to do what

AW: [firebird-support] NBackup Levels

2014-05-07 Thread Steffen Heil (Mailinglisten)
Hi There is no formal limit, ... Is there a negative effect on too many levels? (Slowdown or database storage overhead?) Regards, Steffen

Re: [firebird-support] NBackup Levels

2014-05-07 Thread Kjell Rilbe
Steffen Heil (Mailinglisten) skriver: Hi I could simply create backups with incrementing levels, move the backup to the other server(s) and apply them there (that database is offline). However, I suspect there is a limit for the number of backup levels a database can have. You

RE: [firebird-support] NBackup Levels

2014-05-07 Thread Svein Erling Tysvær
I understand your problem. Would it be possible to measure the size of each level 5 backup, and if it's over a certain threshold use a higher level for the rest of that day to keep from copying the same large set of data over and over? In essence, you would create a script that backs up every

Odp: [firebird-support] Bug? Come back

2014-05-07 Thread liviusliv...@poczta.onet.pl
Hi, I back with this question. Is this really correct because after discussion with team i have now doubt. We have here parenthesis. Any expression in parenthesis should be first calculated Then this is not test NOT NULL - NULL only Not ( NULL - NULL) Regards, Karol Bieniaszewski -

Re: Odp: [firebird-support] Bug? Come back

2014-05-07 Thread Kjell Rilbe
liviusliv...@poczta.onet.pl skriver: Hi, I back with this question. Is this really correct because after discussion with team i have now doubt. We have here parenthesis. Any expression in parenthesis should be first calculated Then this is not test NOT NULL - NULL only Not ( NULL -

RE: [firebird-support] NBackup Levels

2014-05-07 Thread Leyne, Sean
There is no formal limit, ... Is there a negative effect on too many levels? (Slowdown or database storage overhead?) No negative effect. The database does track the ID of the last backup at each level, so you would have 2 or 3 more entries that the typical usage, but the details are

Re: [firebird-support] NBackup Levels

2014-05-07 Thread Zsazsi
Every operating system has some limit on environment strings like command line, that can be a problem on restore where the every level's filename should be supplied. Not sure if it's a theoretical or practical problem in Your case. I use 3 levels (0 - friday night, 1 - every other weekday night,