G'day Alastair, At 18:52 14/02/02 +0000, you wrote: >I'd like to come back to this problem from November last year. > >I've spent the last two days playing around to see if I could resolve it >and I have! > >Actually, I resolved it a while ago by creating a playback file with a >[Return] in it - but that was not the correct way to do it <g>. > >The real solution was that the database was connected as read only and as >soon as I removed that restriction the problem disappeared.
Well done on the detective work. >The question now is why "CONNECT db READ" should cause the BACKUP command >to fail? Just a couple of guesses, security (if you're only giving them read access, the ability to do a backup to a text file may have been considered inappropriate) and if you are read only then structural changes may be in progress, in which case a backup in the middle... >Anybody got any ideas, please?? I'm trying to write all my code now so >that the database is open in read/write mode only when it is needed to be so. Warmest regards, Tom Grimshaw coy: Just For You Software tel: 612 9552 3311 fax: 612 9566 2164 mobile: 0414 675 903 post: PO Box 470 Glebe NSW 2037 Australia street: 3/66 Wentworth Park Rd Glebe NSW 2037 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: www.just4usoftware.com.au This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential to the intended recipient and may be privileged. If you have received this email inadvertently or you are not the intended recipient, you may not disseminate, distribute, copy or in any way rely on it. Further, you should notify the sender immediately and delete the email from your computer. Whilst we have taken precautions to alert us to the presence of computer viruses, we cannot guarantee that this email and any files transmitted with it are free from such viruses. ================================================ TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l ================================================ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l ================================================ TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/
