Guten Tag Steffen Heil,

am Samstag, 26. März 2005 um 11:13 schrieben Sie:

> 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...

and if that is so then
why is everybody advising against copying the DB - file while
transactions are running ?



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