Document History

Removed “beta” reference in edition info.Changed warning against specifying backup file names interactively with nbackup -R.Removed “(or will be)” from first sentence in Document History.

Changed C:\Databases to C:\Data in the examples, just to keep the lines from running out of the shaded screen areas in the PDF.

Added section Setting the delta file, and changed section Read on? accordingly.

Making and restoring backups: Added warning about heavy-load risks with nbackup 2.0.0–2.0.3.

Restoring a full backup: Corrected wrong statement that nbackup will overwrite an existing database if there are no active connections.Changed italic text about interactive restore failure to a Note and mentioned its fix in 2.0.1.

Incremental backups: Inserted warning that incremental backups are broken in 2.1.

Suppressing database triggers (Firebird 2.1+): New section.

Read on?: Fixed typo (you → your).

Document source formatting: Changed max. line length to 100, without open lines.

All sections and subsections now have an id.

Introduction: Edited first sentence.

Nbackup features — an overview: First sentence: groups → kinds.Edited last para before first subsection: mentioned that only SYSDBA, owner and sometimes OS admins can make a backup.

Nbackup features — an overview :: Limitations of nbackup: Edited previously last listitem to mention Services Manager.Added listitem about direct file access.Removed last para.

Functions and parameters: New section.

Making and restoring backups: Slightly altered last sentence of first para.Extended warning: added info on the role of direct I/O with large databases under Posix.

Making and restoring backups :: Full backups :: Making full backups: Corrected and extended listitem on -U and -P parameters.Added listitems on -FE parameter (new in 2.5), -T parameter (new in 2.1) and -D parameter (new in 2.5, backport to 2.1.4).In listitem starting with “The different parameters”, the parenthesized text now reads (-B, -U etc.), because many new parameters have been added.

Making and restoring backups :: A word on the inner workings: Small edit (image → impression).

Making and restoring backups :: Full backups :: Restoring a full backup: Removed parameters -U and -P from specification.Added listitem on aliases.Changed separate Note about interactive restore failure back to italic text inside the listitem itself.Added listitem about non-necessity of running server and ignoring credentials.

Making and restoring backups :: Incremental backups: Edited Warning: mentioned fix in 2.1.1.

Making and restoring backups :: Incremental backups :: Restoring incremental backups: Removed parameters -U and -P from formal syntax and 1st listitem.

Making and restoring backups :: Backing up raw-device databases: New section.

Making and restoring backups :: Suppressing database triggers: Edited and extended this section, but removed the “SYSDBA and owner only” remark.

Making and restoring backups :: Direct I/O (Firebird 2.1.4+): New section.

Making and restoring backups :: Informational options (Firebird 2.5+): New section.

Making and restoring backups :: Backups on remote machines (Firebird 2.5+): New section.

Locking and unlocking: Slightly altered last sentence of second para.

Locking and unlocking :: Locking the database and backing up yourself: Added Comments (para + itemizedlist).

Locking and unlocking :: Restoring a backup made after nbackup -L: Added info on use of alias and -Z to step 2 of procedure.In next para, translated “en” (leftover from Dutch original) → “and”.Added sentence to Note about reading -F as Flag-only.

Locking and unlocking :: Locking raw-device databases: New section.

Locking and unlocking :: Under the hood: Edited Note.

Setting the delta file: 1st para largely rewritten;now refers to raw-device databases.Split off last sentence into a para of its own.Added info (para + programlisting) about setting delta with CREATE DATABASE.1st listitem in Notes: ADD → [ADD].

Document history: Changed ulink to CVS (both text and url);now points directly to document.

License notice: End year in copyright mention now 2011.

Functions and parameters: In first table: self-restored → user-restored.In second table: self-restore → user restore.

Locking and unlocking :: Locking the database and backing up yourself: Section renamed Locking the database and making the backup yourself.

Locking and unlocking :: Restoring a backup made after nbackup -L: 2nd listitem in 1st itemizedlist: self-restored → user-restored.

Backup history: New section

Technical background information New section

Added switches introduced in Firebird 3.0 and 4.0

Various copy-editing

Fix rendering of Document History in PDF by breaking long entries into multiple entries