RE: [firebird-support] Firebird Backups on Google Compute Engine

2017-03-27 Thread Rudi Feijó rudi.fe...@multidadosti.com.br [firebird-support]
>> We are considering moving our systems to GCE and trying to figure the best >> approach to backup our many firebird databases. >> Firebird is not VSS aware so we can't use shadow copying. > >Not completely true. > >1- Firebird uses careful write order, so a VSS snapshot should be a

RE: [firebird-support] Firebird Backups on Google Compute Engine

2017-03-24 Thread 'Leyne, Sean' s...@broadviewsoftware.com [firebird-support]
> We are considering moving our systems to GCE and trying to figure the best > approach to backup our many firebird databases. > Firebird is not VSS aware so we can't use shadow copying. Not completely true. 1- Firebird uses careful write order, so a VSS snapshot should be a valid database