--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Scott Taylor <scott@d...>
wrote:

> Right, that makes sense. Also the reason why, in the original post,

cp was

> the first command given. :)

Scott, sorry for hastyness - stories when people made suicide using
gbak -R on the only database instance are typical enough to force me
to react on this option like a bull on red rag ;) And for my English
too. BTW, make sure there is not connection when you copy database
files is'nt enough - I, using Linux Classis, unload xinetd to be sure
no one will connect in time of copying. Not sure how to stop Super,
did'nt used it for 8 years.

Best regards, Alexander.