Marius,

Such backup error can be indication of HDD or RAM problems.

Check RAM http://www.ib-aid.com/articles/item93
and run checkdsk/another utility to check HDDs.

Regards,
Alexey Kovyazin
IBSurgeon (www.ib-aid.com)

> Thank you Alexey,
>
> I will instruct my Client to execute another backup. I'm making the
> assumption then that this is not a Firebird issue but rather just the luck
> of the draw when backing up the database?
>
> Regards
> Marius
>

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