I'd like to copy a database that may or may not be in use. Doing a filesystem copy will not ensure a stable copy. Can I use the sqlite3 CLI and some SQL to do this such that I can wrap it up into a script or do I need to write my own program, that gets a lock and re-creates the DB in a new file? I'd like to avoid dumping the database and importing it into a new. My DB is 400M and growing so I'd like to avoid dumping such a large amount of data. What I'd like is a safe binary copy.
>From a previous post, I have seen someone suggest this: attach 'foo.db' as bar; create table baz as select * from bar.baz; detach bar; If I wrapped this in a loop for all tables it would probably do the trick. Can this be done from the sqlite3 cli or will it have to be done in code.? I appreciate any suggestions. Thank you, -John
