> >
> This process is really for our single user customers, who are using the
> embedded server. We are planning on having another little application
> that is run by the sysadmin does these updates outside of the
> application for our multi user customers - with various warnings about
> not having anybody using the system etc.
>

For your embedded customers, because nothing else and noone else
connects to the database, wouldn't it be trivial to make a file copy
of the fdb file as your backup (while nothing is connected)? Then you
have a fallback if something goes wrong.

Adam