See this was a problem we had about a year ago on another site.
It took us 2 months to figure out.

So, NO.
There runs a backup each night at 3 am.
This backup DOES NOT backup up GDB files.

Then to have a backup, I have written a small program, that runs as a
service, and each night at 23.00 it makes a Gbackup using GBak (via
TIBBackupService).
The backup file is then called *.GDK

And this file is backed up by Veritas.

Michael

--- In ib-support@yahoogroups.com, "benno" <iblist@e...> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does your client backup (and copy) the GDB file e.g. using some
streamer
> software, or are they told that they should never copy the database
and just
> backup the gbk?
>
> Benno
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <Michael.Vilhelmsen@M...>
> To: <ib-support@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 7:45 PM
> Subject: [ib-support] FB Error and something strange
>
>
> > Hi
> >
> > I have a customer and at his site we have 1 server running Windows
> > 2000 with FB 1.0 installed.
> > Besides they have 6 clients.
> > They are all in a LAN.
> > The clients run Windows 98 or 98SE.
> >
> > My DB has gotten corrupted.
> > In the log file, this message is found a lot:
> >
> > INTERNAL GDS SOFTWARE CONSISTENCY CHECK ( cannot find record back
> > version (291) )
> >
> > I then connected to my customers PC (using PC-AnyWhere).
> > >From there I accesses the server (as I have done often on other
> > customers PC).
> > The server has just been restarted, and the only other client
started
> > was mine (PC-AnyWhere client).
> > On the server I TRIED to do this:
> >
> > GFix -mend -user SYSDBA -password masterkey c:\Data\MyDB.GDB
> > GBak - CREATE -v -user SYSDBA -password
masterkey "BackupDB" "NEWDB"
> >
> > Both of the above gave
> >
> > Unavailable database.
> > I then tried just connecting to the firebird via a program called
> > AdminTool.
> > Upon login I got a message saying:
> > Cannot locate service (or something like that).
> >
> > I was then forced to copy the DB from the server to the client PC.
> > On the client PC I (finally) managed to get my customer to install
> > Firebird.
> > Then LOCALLY i ran GFix -mend.
> > Completed telling med, there were 5 record error (Which means ?).
> >
> > After that I ran GBak -t -v etc etc. to make a backup of my DB.
> > It completed with no error.
> >
> > Then I have just started GBak -Create etc etc which is running at
the
> > moment.
> > But this is going to take forever to complete since the machine
is a
> > 300 MHz with only 64 Mb RAM and a slow HDD, but eventually it will
> > complete.
> >
> > What I don't understand in all this is:
> >
> > 1.
> > Why can't I run GBak or GFix on the server ?
> >
> > 2.
> > Why CAN i run GBak or GFix locally (of course because it all
works!).
> >
> > 3.
> > Why does the error in the LOG appear (INTERNAL GDS
SOFTWARE ......) ?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Tommorrow one of my colleques are going over there (a short trip
of
> > 300 Km) to fix things for himself.
> > I would like to be able to offer more to him tommorrow on what to
do.
> >
> > We will change they HUB / SWITCH, the netcards in the machines,
see
> > to it, that the netcabels are OK, etc. etc.
> >
> > Besides the INTERNAL GDS SOFTWARE ...... the logfile also contains
> > multible lines saying error 10054.
> > >From earlier experiences I know that this is often due to network
> > errors of some kind (thats why we will change the netcards etc).
> >
> > Just 2 weeks ago we had the mobo in the server switched, because
we
> > thought it was that, which caused the problems.
> > But obviously this didn't help.
> >
> > Besides, we have around 6 other customers with more or less the
same
> > setup of machines, hardware, networking etc and here it all runs
> > smothly.
> >
> > Soo any good input is appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Michael
> >
> >
> >
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