I need this restore to take less time. I am using the comand line gbak commamd on Solaris. I bought IB V7 because IB 6.0.1 to see if it made things faster. I restore without indexes that saves 1/2 hour. I tried puting the backup and the destination on seprate physical drives that did not help. I tried the - es options and tried combonations of the buffers. I would appreciate any ideas

I'm not certain what to tell you other than I have a 31 GB DB
that under windows restores in ~12 hours (with indexes).

        -Craig

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I found that IB7 restore was up to 50% slower than IB6.5. When I asked Borland
about this, they told me it was to be expected. I *guess* it has something to do
with the changes that were made for SMP support.

The CPU affinity didn't affect the results as IB7 restore, as IB6.5 did, always
used only one CPU.

Finally I measured the effect different page and buffer sizes had on restore
performance:

Page    Buffer  Elapsed time
size    size    in minutes
----------------------------
1024    1000    99
1024    2000    98
1024    4000    102
1024    8000    105
1024    16000   115
2048    1000    97
2048    2000    96
2048    4000    106
2048    8000    113
2048    16000   117
4096    1000    94
4096    2000    94
4096    4000    93
4096    8000    94
4096    16000   95
8192    1000    95
8192    2000    95
8192    4000    96
8192    8000    97
8192    16000   95