Managing Archive Size

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As the number of archived journal files grows, recovery time increases. To keep the archive from becoming too large, you can use any of the following options:

• Run the gbak -archive_database command to create a new dump, thereby reducing the number of journal files InterBase needs to keep the archive up-to-date.
• Run the gfix command to set a maximum number of dumps to allow in the archive:

gfix -archive_dumps <number> db_name

When the number of database dumps in the archive exceeds the <number> given, older dumps and journals will be deleted.

• Run the gfix -archive_sweep command to manually control archive size (described below).

Topics

• About Archive Sequence Numbers and Archive Sweeping
• Tracking the Archive State