Hannes Streicher wrote:

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

The main problem would be if the copy operation causes Firebird's DB
writes to fail. If you can copy the DB file without that problem, maybe
it's ok, but I'm not sure.

Kjell
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