Hello,

Unfortunately, I can't say more without thorough investigation.
It can be bug or corruption or misconfiguration.

Regards,
Alexey Kovyazin

> the level 0 backup restores ok and gbak will then backup& restore that,
> could the corruption be somewhere that that doesn't matter?
> how can I find and deal with it?
>
> On 1 November 2011 09:47, Nick Upson<Nick.upson@...> wrote:
>
>> sorry, didn't think to say, its version 2.1.4
>>
>>
>> On 31 October 2011 17:21, Alexey Kovyazin<ak@...> wrote:
>>
>>> **
>>>
>>>
>>> Hello Nick,
>>>
>>> It seems like you have database corruption.
>>> What is Firebird version?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Alexey Kovyazin
>>> IBSurgeon (www.ib-aid.com)
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I have recently started using nbackup and have a system where, at the
>>>> end of an attempt to do a level 0 I got
>>>>
>>>> Fatal lock manager error: invalid lock id (158048), errno: 22
>>>> --Invalid argument
>>>>
>>>> attempts to do subsequent level 1 backups produced:
>>>>
>>>> unsuccessful metadata update
>>>> -Database is already in the physical backup mode
>>>> Failure: Database error
>>>> [
>>>> PROBLEM ON "begin backup".
>>>> SQLCODE:-607
>>>> ]
>>>>
>>>> I've never seen anything like this in my earlier testing, can anyone
>>>> tell me what happened (firebird.log has nothing at these times)
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>
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