Wi are doing backup (as script) - online in night time, when almost allways , nobody is up there.

A few days ago, we had 26416400 blocks on 1 volume (tape),
today we have 25246500 blocks on 1 volume (tape).

(there was intensiv work this days, in financial department, on batches ... )

Question: Is this normal situation?
Is there temporary tables in financial package with
data dissapears after some actions?

P.S.
We are backing up /company /baan and all subdirectories ...

To name a few:
- tables have been reorganised
- a (temp) file/ directory (e.g. a portingset) has been removed
- (old) log files have been removed
- $BSE/tmp has been cleaned

I assume that lots of people can/ will continue

Kind regards,
Dick

OK, thanks, I am aware of it ...

But, I will try to clear my question.

there was intensiv work this days, in financial department, on batches ... )

Is there temporary tables in financial package (or any other) with
data that dissapears after some actions?

Thanks

There Are some temporary tables in Baan.. and there are some transitional tables, for example, if they were closing projects, or posting integration transactions, you might have less data in your DB...

What I'd like to know is, why did you jump to the temporary table question? Are you seeing problems?

Based on your Data:
Originally posted by karlovac
A few days ago, we had 26416400 blocks on 1 volume (tape),
today we have 25246500 blocks on 1 volume (tape).


This could be anything.. (Dick mentioned the most likely ones...)

Dave

tfgld416 gets deleted after posting tfgld4201m000 and tfgld102 gets cleared after finalization but records are copied to tfgld106 in that case. After archieve / purge records from integration tables (tfgld410,415,417,418 etc) gets vanished.

Answer to Dave;
In backup skript I have some lines to clear Baan temporary files older than ... some days, and didn't notice this big size changing on backup.

So I wanted to find another reason for this.
(Thanks to Dikkie Dik)

What I wanted is what Mbdagla said.

Thanks to all