Hi everybody,
in her book in chapter 39 (Housekeeping tool), Helen explains the
difference between garbage collection and sweep: However, gbak doesn't
perform a full sweep. Like the regular garbage collection, it leaves
deleted and rolled-back versions alone. Sweeping is the only way to get
rid
20.02.2015 17:36, Thomas Beckmann wrote:
I wonder whether this still holds true, 'cause reading in current how
tos and web pages even on firebirdsql.org makes me assume sweeping and
garbage collection are the same today.
They're still different beasts. I'm wondering what pages say the
so
if I run gbak -g every night I should also run gfix, but if I run gbak
without -g I don't need gfix (but it helps a little) ?
Nick Upson, Telensa Ltd, Senior Operations Network Engineer
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On 20 February 2015 at 18:36, Ann
Thomas,
Gbak backup removes all unnecessary back versions and all rolled back changes,
unless it is run with the -g switch. That switch is provided for those cases
where a database cleanup is not needed. Examples include the case when the
database will immediately be replaced by a restored
