Sean Leyne wrote:

> But to come back to the original question, is there any danger of running a VSS database while Firebird database is running? Absolutely none!

But then I don't understand this, from the OP's question:

> The manufacturer of my buckup software
> http://www.acronis.com/backup-recovery/
> <http://www.acronis.com/backup-recovery/> told me, it is important,
> that Firebird works with / supports the Microsoft VSS service

This suggests that Firebird ought to recognize and/or cooperate with the VSS service, "or else".

I don't know anything about VSS, but given the choice I'd definitely go for gbak or nbackup. They were designed to do exactly that job. They know what's going on *inside* a Firebird database - something that VSS probably isn't aware of.


My 2 cts...
Paul Vinkenoog


PS: Sean, why does you mail program add "Email found in subject" to the subject? ;-)