> I was under the impression that copying a database that is currently in use can cause a corruption because windows xcopy might deny the Firebird server access to that file momentarily. I was looking for an official statement on this for a customer of mine and found this:
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> http://www.firebirdsql.org/manual/qsg10-howtocorrupt.html
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> but it doesn't include the copying/zipping of a live database. Is the documentation out of date, or is it not an issue any more?

Others have replied on that already.

> Regards
> Maya
>
> PS. Similarly, in the past, I have also been advise to keep connection strings exactly the same from all client connections, but I can't see anything on that either

AFAIR, this was an issue in InterBase 6 (or even pre V6?) which has been
fixed in Firebird 1.0.



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