I've been doing it for a long time. Creating a Monday.bak, Tuesday.bak,
etc...

I just tried it and it overwrote the gbk file.



-----Original Message-----
From: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:firebird-support@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Helen Borrie
Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 7:11 PM
To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [firebird-support] Failing to overwrite backup file



At 06:48 AM 29/06/2006, you wrote:

>We use .FBK as our backup file extension and we have one

customer who

>when he runs his backup task, the backup happens but it fails

to

>overwrite the daily backup file. If we rename the existing

backup file,

>it will create it, but it won't overwrite it. We noticed that

he had

>installed some family tree software that was associating the

FBK file

>extension with it's software. We tried removing the association

of the

>.FBK files but it didn't help. Has anyone else every

experienced

>something like this?

It is "as designed" - you cannot overwrite a backup file; or,
rather, you cannot output a backup to a file that already exists
in
the target location with the same name. Think for a moment about
the
implications if it was allowed...

./heLen







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