Thank you very much again Dmitry. I now understand. It is very clear now.
Greetings. Walter. On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 4:58 PM, Dmitry Yemanov dim...@users.sourceforge.net [firebird-support] <firebird-support@yahoogroups.com> wrote: > > > 13.10.2014 00:22, 'Walter R. Ojeda Valiente' wrote: > > > Thank you very much for your answer Dmitry. However my first question > > remains: why after a cycle backup/restore the Next Transaction was 304 > > and not 3? > > > > My understanding so far is that after a cycle backup/restore the ID of > > all transactions in the backup is put in 1. So, the Next Transaction > > would be 3 or a number very close to 3. > > Nope. The Next Transaction number is reset to 1 when a new database is > created. This is a very beginning of the restore process. Then gbak > restores metadata and data, and it can be done in multiple transactions, > depending on switches. IIRC, -o[nce] starts transaction per every > restored table and -v[erbose] starts transaction per every restored > index. There may be other side effects I'm not aware of. > > Dmitry > > >
