On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 12:25 PM, rjschappe <rschappe@...> wrote:

> I have recently been made aware that a client's firebird 1.5 database has not been backed up for over a month!
>
> Firebird 1.5 DBMS was installed on a Win 2003 server and when I remotely logged in, I noticed that the "Modified Date" was over a month old.

Windows doesn't change the "Modified Date" on open files.

> I need to back this up... but now I am very frightened that if I go about this incorrectly, I may lose over a month's worth of production data.
>

To be safe, do the backup without taking the database down, restore it
to a different
file and location, and validate that the month's data is there. But I
think you're just
seeing a Windows quirk.

Good luck,

Ann