The fastest way I found and never failed this far for over
an year, is turn all FB server activities off (most drastically stop
services) and run 'command xcopy database.gdb databaseback.gdb' ,
DO NOT use 'command copy' that fails. Just wrote a small application
that does this automatically at a certain time and datetimestamps the
backup. All done in at most a minute. But maybe your application
doesn't allow this approach.

Best Regards
Hans

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Leyne, Sean wrote:

>
> Artur,
>
> > Another good thing it's gbak to produce a 'ready to work'
> > file. I think this is already on 'things to do list' on
> > Firebird Project. A backup that generates a file that
> > can be used rigth away, without restore.
>
> This was my original idea. I couldn't see someone using GBAK to backup
> and/or restore a large database -- it takes way too long.
>
> I had started working out the details of the implementation but got
> side-tracked with a lot of other things.
>
> Are you interested in working on this?
>
> How are you at C++ programming? (This will be a FB2 task/project)
>
> Sean
>
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