Hi,

At March 25, 2005, 11:08, Walter Ogston wrote:

> I have set up a Firebird database (superserver 1.5.2.4731) as backend to an
> Apache server on a Windows 2000 Server on Intel Xeon 3.06 GHz (1 cpu) box
> with 1 GB Ram.

> I have written a script to do daily backup using gbak. My client plans to
> install Symantec Livestate Recovery on the box for regular backup. My
> inclination is to exclude *.fdb from the Symantec backup, but apparently
> the Symantec product documentation claims that it is OK to use it back up
> database files. Has anyone had experience with this backup tool and/or
> what is the official recommendation from the Firebird support group?

You might want to follow Martijn's suggestion.

Here's a document from Symantec and look on page 3 for the database
scenario, for more information:
http://sea.symantec.com/content/displaypdf.cfm?pdfid=37


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Best regards,
Daniel Rail
Senior Software Developer
ACCRA Consultants Inc. (www.accra.ca)
ACCRA Med Software Inc. (www.filopto.com)