--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Doug Chamberlin <chamberlin.doug@...> wrote:

>
> On 2/29/12 2:50 PM, todderamaa wrote:
> > Maybe with the possibility of corruption, I should tell him to exclude
> > the database files from backup entirely and only backup the gbk files
> > that are created in the evening.
> This is the usual way to backup Firebird databases in situations like
> your clients have. Operating on the live database files is a quick way
> to corrupted backup copies. If you have not experienced corruption
> either you have been lucky or have not actually tried restoring from
> many of those backup copies.

I thought that the corruption could actually happen to the live database you were copying, not just the backup.

Is the risk only to the backup?

Todd