On 8 Jul 2009, at 9:48am, Neville Franks wrote: > A proper backup program that opened the file for r/o, non-exclusive > use may be able to copy the file.
But under many operating systems it runs the risk of copying the first half of the file, then allowing a change to be made, then copying the second half of the file. This would give you a corrupt database. If you want to make sure your copy is not corrupt, use an exclusive lock. > I thought SQLite has a live backup capability now. Surely that is the > best way to handle this. Yep. You have to use C code to use it. It can't be done from the command-line tool. The programming time required might mean it's not 'best'. Simon. _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
