Hi,

>Can anyone confirm by belief that it is not possible (or tricky) to
>maintain a shadow copy on a physically different server in a windows
>2003 environment?

Yep, that's true. The shadow, as it is for the original database, must be at
the same machine the FB process is running.

>(you can I am told on Linux)

On Linux there's an option on Firebird.conf to alow hosting a db file on a
"network disc". One must be very care with this (look for
"RemoteFileOpenAbility" at the end of firebird.conf)


Regards,
Anderson Farias