> --- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Doug Chamberlin<chamberlin.doug@...> > wrote: >> >> On 2/29/12 2:50 PM, todderamaa wrote: >>> Maybe with the possibility of corruption, I should tell him to exclude >>> the database files from backup entirely and only backup the gbk files >>> that are created in the evening. >> This is the usual way to backup Firebird databases in situations like >> your clients have. Operating on the live database files is a quick way >> to corrupted backup copies. If you have not experienced corruption >> either you have been lucky or have not actually tried restoring from >> many of those backup copies. > > I thought that the corruption could actually happen to the live database you > were copying, not just the backup. > > Is the risk only to the backup?
Haven't seen a corrupted original database so far, when e.g. copying the database at file system level. The copied database file can be easily trashed/corrupted though, when copying while the original database is actively used by client attachments. Regards, Thomas
