> Thanks, Ann, now I understand. Then I guess I have no choice but to
> periodically shut down my daemon so I can backup the database file.
>
> Periodic maintenance is not too bad! I can live with it until FB2.0
> become a release product, I can then use the "alter database
> begin/end.." stmt to backup the database on the fly.
>
> Jeff

tell me again why you can't use the service API to call backup?
Alan