>Although I agree with your advice, in general copying the file can corrupt
>the target file, but it cannot corrupt not the source file. Usually for
>copying a file the copy program will acquire a read lock, so nothing is
>changed and the database process can continue writing to the file without
>being hindered by the copy process.

It happens - corruption of the original fdb file when copying it - rare but
just once is too much.
Bogdan



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