Lester,

Well, it's difficult to reproduce the situation.

Regards,
Alexey Kovyazin
PS I think it's better to discuss this problem in firebird-support.

> Alexey Kovyazin wrote:
> > Hello Lester,
> >
> > I think it's well-known problem with database file at Linux
> >
> > http://www.ib-aid.com/articles/item70
> >
> > See "Disappeared” files on Linux/Unix/HP-UX/...
>
> Having not lost any data in 15+ years, I need to understand what you
> are saying
> here.
>
> The report says ...
> If you replace a database when users are still connected, the server will
> continue to work with the old file, which is wrongly assumed to be
> deleted.
>
> This particular database hasn't been replaced at all. It was created
> on the
> machine from a backup of the development database which is what I've
> managed to
> recover from and has only been active a few weeks. It was the error
> while trying
> to back up that was more concerning? Or was that just an indication
> that Linux
> could not find the file?
>
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