Hi

> But what if the snapshot that you backup is taken in the
> midst of a database update that Firebird is writing? Even if
> Firebird's operations is not disturbed in any way, will the
> snapshot be valid or will your backup copy in fact contain a
> corrupt database?

Firebird's concept of "carefull writes" should NEVER leave the database file
in an inconsistent state at any point in time...

Regards,
Steffen


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