Subject Can I use gfix to fix database while it is being used (online) by clients?
Author mars
Hi!

I am a database administrator trying to fix a 2GB firebird ver1.5
database being used in a hospital. I cannot afford to shutdown the
database as this is a 24/7 operation.

I had copied the database file (inside REdhat Linux) to my PC and doing
a (local) gfix (-v -full/-mend) but the number of errors is still the
same. I have not tried doing it for the live database.

I cannot backup using IBExpert. Error is "Arithmetic overflow...".

What do you recommend?
Thank you very much.

- mars