Raith, Daniel wrote:

> I have this one customer that has win2k sp4 on the database server. I
> can backup my database, but I can't restore it.
>
> It restores a whole bunch of data like 99% of the size and then says,
> "The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another
> process." We are using firebird 1.5.2.4731 release.
>
> I first make a backup of the database.
>
> Gbak -B "e:\shared apps\mydir\mydb.fdb" "e:\shared apps\mydir\mydb.fbk"
> -user x -pass y
>
> Then when I try to restore to another file
>
> Gbak -C "e:\shared apps\mydir\mydb.fbk" "e:\shared apps\mydir\test.fdb"
> -user x -pass y
>
> It produces that error message. I had their net admin exclude mydir from
> their virus software. E is not a mapped drive.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> I'm thinking of suggesting that they put in another machine with just
> firebird any my database on it. Then we can see if it was some other
> software conflicting with it.
>

Maybe there already is a file called "e:\shared apps\mydir\test.fdb".
Use -Replace, not -Create


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Aage J.