Additional Considerations
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- A journal archive is platform-specific. For example, an archive created with InterBase for Windows cannot be directly used to recover an InterBase database on another platform. Instead, an archived database dump could be logically backed up in transportable format and then logically restored on the other platform.
- Only full dumps are archived. You cannot archive incremental database dumps. The gbak
-archive_databasecommand initiates a full, physical backup. For more information about InterBase backup options, see About InterBase backup and restore options. - The journal and journal archive are restricted to a single directory. The number of items allowed to be archived will be limited by the number of files that are allowed in a directory for a given file system.