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Appendix A: Document history

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

Revision History
1.0 10 October 2009 ND Created as a chapter in the Command Line Utilities manual.
1.1 20 October 2009 ND More minor updates and converted to a stand alone manual.
1.2 24 November 2009 ND Corrected the section on -y Suppress_output plus corrected the formatting of various screen dumps. They had been reformatted as text at some point.
1.3 24 June 2010 ND Added a bit more details to the -o[ne_at_a_time] restore option to explain transactions.
1.4 09 August 2010 ND Noted 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.
1.5 31 March 2011 ND Updated the -z option to indicate that it does carry out a backup.
1.6 11 October 2011 ND Updated to cover Firebird 2.5 changes.
Corrected description of -g[arbage_collect] switch.
Lots of spelling mistakes corrected.
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