Actually I would like to add.

gbak is like hot backup and more.

Most hot backups will create a backup file on the machine where the database is running.

With gbak you can create backup files on a different machine when the database is still in operation, which is TERRIFIC

gk


------------------Original Message-----------

From : Helen Borrie <helebor@...>
To : firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
Date : 18/02/2004 11:22:04 AM
Subject : Re: [firebird-support] Newbie Question: Hot Backups

At 05:14 AM 18/02/2004 +0000, you wrote:

>What is the difference of Firebird's shadow files and hot backups that
>other commercial
>RDBMS's are bragging?

Dunno. Though shadowing duplicates your data (exactly, warts and all) it
isn't backup.

>
>If Firebird can do hot backups, how can I do it?

Firebird has always had hot backups (if we are talking about running a
backup while users are online). Just use gbak. Note that gbak runs inside
a snapshot transaction and will backup database state as it was at the
start of the transaction, i.e. work done during the backup will not be in
the backup.

/hb





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