[progress Communities] [progress Openedge Abl] Forum Post: Re: Backup Smaller Than Binary Dump?

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I didn't mention the backup was created with -com. More information. I restored the backup to a tmp directory. There are 2 type 1 storage areas: data and index. data grew to 45 GB and index grew to 6 GB. I ran DBanalys against the newly restored DB and same info: 33.9 GB of data and 3.8 GB of index. No LOBs in the DB. There is one big table with 23.5 GB of data in it per DB Analysis. There is nothing special about the table. Could it be a deleted field in the middle of the record or something that somehow gets compressed by the probkup -com? Let me try an ASCII dump just for fun.

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