Thanks. But the problem is, the restore is done by the C/S software and the web application doesn't know when this happening. Anyway, this is not a major issue, as restore is very rarely done. We are now managing with a msg when the restore fails.

Best regards,
Bala

--- In firebird-php@yahoogroups.com, Milan Babuskov <milanb@...> wrote:
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> Balagopal wrote:
> > We have a C/S application that uses Firebird (2.1). Recently we made a web extension to this application using PHP. We have a back-up/restore utility as part of the C/S software. The restore function (this copies the backed-up database file to the actual location) fails if Apache is connected.
> >
> > Any way to do restore when Apache is connected?
>
> No. But, changing ibase_pconnect with ibase_connect might help.
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