it's never locked up on me - but I suppose the cpu on the process has to
show not responding for quite some time...
the datestamp on the file won't change till it stops. It should be growing
in size though if it's still working.
Alan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chooi-Ting [mailto:goonct@...]
> Sent: Tuesday, 2 September 2003 7:11 PM
> To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [firebird-support] Re: Gbak
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> 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
> > > To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
> > > 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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