> --- 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?

Haven't seen a corrupted original database so far, when e.g. copying the
database at file system level. The copied database file can be easily
trashed/corrupted though, when copying while the original database is
actively used by client attachments.


Regards,
Thomas