> In our system there is only one process opening the database. We
> were thinking of storing the file in a disc in other machine and
> accessing it by a mapped drive just for security reasons. What are
> the riscs of doing this ( for the risk-affine people :-) )?
>

why is this more secure than making the fbserver machine secure (as secure)?
Alan
PS - don't forget that you cannot run tape backups of live databases.