I think it only checks existence of log file

Regards
Bogdan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com [mailto:firebird-
> support@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Raith, Daniel
> Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 4:09 PM
> To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: RE: [firebird-support] Failing to overwrite backup file
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> 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.
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> -----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
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> 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...
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> ./heLen
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