>I have an application which is running in over 800 restaurants and
>uses Firebird v1.52. During backups, I use a TIBOBackupService to
>create an fbk and this fbk is stored in a zip file.

>When restoring, the first step is to delete any fbk files that exist
>before trying to restore the zip. Sometimes, this deletion fails
>because the fbk is open. If I didn't delete the file, the restore of
>the zip would fail for the same reason. The only solution we've found
>when this happens is to restart the Firebird Guardian. However, in
>the restaurants, the users don't have adequate rights to restart a
>service.

Not quite sure why you need to constantly restore the backup files, apart
from perhaps "compacting"

the database.



If you have an application which controls the unzipping process, then you
could try extracting it to

an fbk which does not exist. Assuming you have a Delphi application using
some kind of zip components

you should be able to generate an extract filename based on whether the
filename generated currently

exists. This would at least get the apparent problem you have with open fbk
files, but wouldn't solve

the problem of why they were being left open.

>This doesn't always happen but it's generating a large number of
>support calls. Hense, my customer is blaming Firebird and me for
>using Firebird.

>Has anyone else seen this problem? If so, how did you deal with it?

Graeme Edwards



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