Re: [firebird-support] Is it safe to have multiple instances of Gbak with garbage collection?

2015-08-20 Thread Ann Harrison aharri...@ibphoenix.com [firebird-support]
On Aug 19, 2015, at 5:49 PM, tvd...@ymail.com [firebird-support] firebird-support@yahoogroups.com wrote: I believe it is generally safe to have multiple simultaneously running instances of Gbak backing up the same server, when all of them read data from within their own transaction.

Re: [firebird-support] Is it safe to have multiple instances of Gbak with garbage collection?

2015-08-20 Thread tvd...@ymail.com [firebird-support]
Thanks Ann, Doing multiple simultaneous backups is never intentional. There will be a process that does hourly backups in the background, and someone (unaware of that) might decide to do a manual backup to another location at the same time. I was considering disabling garbage collection in the

[firebird-support] Is it safe to have multiple instances of Gbak with garbage collection?

2015-08-19 Thread tvd...@ymail.com [firebird-support]
Hello, I believe it is generally safe to have multiple simultaneously running instances of Gbak backing up the same server, when all of them read data from within their own transaction. Is that any different when Gbak is not supplied with the argument to skip garbage collection? Does that put