At 02:19 PM 9/03/2006, you wrote:

>What's happening is that during a backup something causes the backup
>file (fbk) to be left open. Then on future backups, the backup fails
>because it can't overwrite the fbk.

Oh, that's different. Gbak, by design, will NOT write a backup over
a file of the same name. (Gbak is called by the Service Manager,
which in turn, is what IBOBackupService and IBORestoreService are invoking.)

Helen