Hi,

At March 26, 2005, 07:16, Kjell Rilbe wrote:

> 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.

I've seen the database's copy being corrupt. But, I don't remember
seeing the original file corrupt. So, yes it's possible to have the
backup copy being corrupt.

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