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Backup

Firebird comes with its own utility for backing up and restoring your databases. Its name is gbak and it can be found in the bin subdirectory of your Firebird installation. Firebird databases can be backed up whilst users are connected to the system and going about their normal work. The backup will be taken from a snapshot of the database state at the time the backup began.

Regular backups and occasional restores using gbak should be a scheduled part of your database management activity.

Warning

Do not use external proprietary backup utilities or file-copying tools such as WinZip, tar, copy, xcopy, etc., on a database which is running. Not only will the backup be unreliable, but the disk-level blocking used by these tools can corrupt a running database.

Important

Study the warnings in the next section about database activity during restores!

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