Hello,

> Hello,
>
> Is there a way to ask a database if someone is performing a nbackup?
>
> If it's in "the physical backup mode".
>
> I'm always paranoid if there is a power failure during a backup and it
> gets stuck in that mode and I would like it to recover from such situation.
> We have many hundreds of installations and it's difficult to monitor all.
>
> Firebird 2.5 on Windows

Perhaps MON$DATABASE is delivering with the MON$BACKUP_STATE field?
https://firebirdsql.org/file/documentation/reference_manuals/fblangref25-en/html/fblangref-appx05-mondb.html


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