I believe that the basic assumption that you have to put the database into
a quiescent state to get a consistent backup is incorrect. I always
thought that Firebird backups ran in a single long transaction meaning that
nothing committed after the backup starts can be seen by the backup.

Louis Kleiman

On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 8:16 AM, noelfrain <nfrain@...>wrote:

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> In order to guarantee a 'live' DB is backed up in a consistant state, we
> need to make sure it is quiesced at backup time.
> We need to configure the Storagecraft ShadowProtect backup job to run a
> pre-snapshot script that quiesces the Firebird Database, followed by a
> post-snapshot script that brings the DB backup out of this state.
> Can anyone provide these scripts or tell us where they could be downloaded.
> The version of Firebird we are running is 1.5.2.4731
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