Hi

> Don't tell me they just want to run a taoe backup across a live gd/fdb

file???

> please don't tell me that...
> That would be the reason for corruption.

Right.

> If you want to do it their way - then run a gbak on the database every

night and copy the resultant gbk file across to the other server.

Or even better: Run gbak on the file server and backup the database directly
to the fileserver that way.

> That would be much safer.

... and faster.

Regards,
Steffen