ok. thanks for the info.
btw, how do we know whether it is locked up ?


--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Alan McDonald <alan@m...>
wrote:

> gbak is only another read transaction on the db so you can kill it

if you

> are sure it's locked up - it won't harm the db - if that's what you

mean

> Alan
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Chooi-Ting [mailto:goonct@w...]
> > Sent: Tuesday, 2 September 2003 6:42 PM
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> > Subject: [firebird-support] Gbak
> >
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > can we terminate gbak process while it is running? I have issued a
> > gbak process to backup my database, however it has stopped

writing to

> > the backup file(as I can see, the file size and time stamp of the
> > backup file is not changed) with the gbak process in the system.
> >
> > please advise.
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