Appendix A: Document history

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Appendix A: Document history

The exact file history is recorded in the manual module in our CVS tree; see https://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=9028. The full URL of the CVS log for this file can be found at https://firebird.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/firebird/ manual/src/docs/firebirddocs/fbutil_gbak.xml?view=log.

Revision history

1.010 October 2009NDCreated as a chapter in the Command Line Utilities manual.
1.120 October 2009NDMore minor updates and converted to a stand alone manual.
1.224 November 2009NDCorrected the section on -y Suppress_output plus corrected the formatting of various screen dumps. They had been reformatted as text at some point.
1.324 June 2010NDAdded a bit more details to the -o[ne_at_a_time] restore option to explain transactions.
1.409 August 2010NDNoted that gbak defaults to running a backup or recover according to the first file name parameter supplied.
A few minor formatting errors, URLs and some examples were corrected.
Also added an example of a meta data only backup and restore.
1.531 March 2011NDUpdated the -z option to indicate that it does carry out a backup.
1.611 October 2011NDUpdated to cover Firebird 2.5 changes.
Corrected description of -g[arbage_collect] switch.
Lots of spelling mistakes corrected.
1.711 January 2013NDUpdated to document the use of the stdin and stdout file names in backups and restores, which allow backups to be written to or read from standard input and standard output.
A section was added on the use of the above to clone databases without requiring an intermediate dump file. An additional section was also added to show how, using the above in conjunction with SSH, backup and/or restore operations could be carried out on databases where one or both of the databases in question, are remote.
1.814 January 2013NDFurther updates to document the use of the stdin and stdout file names in backups and restores. A section has been added to Gbak caveats giving more in depth detail about these two special file names.
1.911 April 2013NDA section has been added to explain how to speedup your backups. A note has been added to the -service option to explain that it's use is not restriced to remote databases. Syntax errors in some examples corrected.
1.101 May 2013NDSlight update to the -use_[all_space] command line switch, to explain how it works in a more understandable manner.
1.111 May 2013NDA correction to the above change to the -use_[all_space] command line switch - it affects all subsequent pages as well as the ones created during the restore.

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