Tom

Also I am sure you are aware beware of the caveat that if a log file
already exists the backup file will not be created.

In my case I delete the log file before running gbak and I tell my
customers to look out for a log file of length >0 this indicates a
problem.

My application is a little more complex in that I remotely backup in
excess of 100 shops/db's everyday while the shops are potentially
still logged in.

Rgds

Peter

On 26 Oct 2004 at 3:56, tom@... wrote:

>
> --- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Helen Borrie <helebor@t...>
> wrote:
>
> > It could be something as simple as CreateProcess having
nowhere to
> put the
> > verbose output. Try adding the switch
> > -y D:\SiteData\007222\Backup\007222_SiteData4_DL1.log
> >
> > to the end of the whole command and see whether that fixes it.
> >
> > btw, you just caused me to discover an error in the gbak switches
> list in
> > The Book. the -v switch abbreviates -verify, not -verbose. But
gbak
> > doesn't mind, it seems to ignore everything after the "v". I'd
suggest
> > either correcting "-verbose" to "-verify" anyway. Though it's a far
> call,
> > you never know but what someone might decide to add another
switch like
> > "-verbs_only" at some future point.
> >
> > ./heLen
>
> Thanks heLen,
>
> Using -y to redirect the output does make this work - at least the
> backup file is created correctly, but now the log file ends up with
> the extra character!
>
> Thanks for the heads up on -v. I've now discovered that if I leave
out
> the -v option, the log file still gets created with the extra
> character but with zero length.
>
> So it seems as if the last parameter is always being corrupted. It
> would be nice to find the cause of this, so if anyone has any more
> ideas, I'd like to hear them. The really odd thing, as I said in my
> original post, is that even if I put the command sting into a batch
> file and execute that with CreateProcess, the same thing happens.
>
> Tom
>
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