Anthony,

You sent this to the wrong list. Please post to ib-support....

Helen

At 12:02 PM 18/03/2003 +1000, you wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>I'm looking to automatically backup and restore a database after an upgrade.
>
>My first attempt at achieving this has met with almost complete failure.
>My approach has been as follows:
>1. Backup the database (db1.gdb).
>2. Restore to another file (db2.gdb)
>3. Copy db1.gdb to db1.gdb.bak
>4. Copy db2.gdb to db1.gdb
>
>Unfortunately, this approach has produced a significantly high number of
>corrupt databases. I believe it is to do with the fact that I'm copying a
>database, that could potentially have a number of connections open while
>this is going on.
>
>I want to introduce more tests, etc that will guarantee a non-corrupt
>database at the end of the process. This should be the original file if the
>backup and resotre was not successful. I would like to be able to do this
>on a remote machine except, I don't trust the backups produced (there is no
>guarantee they will restore) and I am not really prepared to wait for the
>database to restore to a temp location and then restore to the location I
>want...
>
>What do others do to regularly maintain their databases? Is a backup and
>restore enough? How do you guarantee the system is not in use when you
>start a backup and restore? How do you stop someone from using your system
>once the backup and restore has been started?
>
>Any help is greatly appreciated!
>
>Thanks
>Anthony
>
>PS. A belated thank you to everyone has answered my previous posts. I
>don't usually like writing a separate 'Thank you' post... It's too close to
>'Me too...' :-)
>
>
>
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