Why is it inappropriate to use: sqlite originaldb ".dump" | sqlite backupdb
On Sun, 2005-05-01 at 00:28 +0800, Damian Slee wrote: > hi all, > i want to make a copy of a sqlite3 database file while it is open. is there > anyway that i can tell programatically that any caches/journals are flushed > out? or is there any way to get and exclusive lock i guess, before making a > backup copy? > > my proposed application would have quite a few threads which may have the > same sqlite db open for read or write (rarer), but i dont want to shut down > the application to definitely know it is safe to copy. > > > thanks, > > damian
