At 01:00 AM 20/04/2006, you wrote:

>Hi All,
>
>I have an issue where during backup or restore the backup file (Fbk)
>is being left open. The components are connecting to Firebird using
>cpLocal and the application is basically a single user application. I
>was under the impression that when I set TIBOBackupService.Active or
>TIBORestoreService.Active to False that the Fbk would be closed. This
>apparently isn't the case. How can I tell when/if the backup file
>closes? Is there a way to force it's closure?

Steve, I've been struggling today trying to get TIBOBackup service
running in IB 4.6A. Unfortunately it seems to be broken....so I'm a
bit stumped for now to make a demo.

However, to pick up on two things I pointed to when you posted about
this problem in firebird-support:

1) As long as you create the TIBOBackupService, it will stay as it
was until the application ends. So the application keeps its
exclusive filesystem lock on the backup file.

2) What I wanted to test was whether creating and destroying the
IBOBackupService object at runtime would release the backup file. In
theory, it should, since destroying the object should cause all
resources it owned or created to be released.

3) I had also asked you two other questions that will be significant
to the problem:

1. Is your backup routine included in a data access application?

2. Whether the answer to 1) is yes or no, are you trying to make a
cpLocal connection for both the data access application and the
backup simultaneously? So far, we know that you are using cpLocal
for the backup...

Helen