Steve Harp wrote:

> Hi Guys,
>
> Is there a way to lock a database to force a backup will fail?
>
> Why would anyone want to do this you ask? Well, my boss is trying to
> test an application and wants to see the response when a backup fails.

If you use an ALIAS, you could change/remove the alias while the
backup runs. Backup will then fail - it seems that gbak does an
additional connect in the last stages of its processing.


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Aage J.