Thanks. Sorry for being stupid and not reading that right.

Cheers,
 Moritz

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> On 18 Sep 2015, at 16:50, Clemens Ladisch <clemens at ladisch.de> wrote:
> 
> Moritz Angermann wrote:
>> with the online backup capabilities, I was wondering if anyone
>> hand ome insight into performing an online restore, e.g. restore
>> data from a backup into an active instance.
> 
> <http://www.sqlite.org/backup.html> says:
> | The online backup API allows the contents of one database to be copied
> | into another database, overwriting the original contents of the target
> | database.
> 
> There is not much of a difference between backup and restore.
> 
> The bottom of <http://www.sqlite.org/c3ref/backup_finish.html> has some
> scary words about concurrency:
> | the application must guarantee that the destination database
> | connection is not passed to any other API (by any thread) after
> | sqlite3_backup_init() is called and before the corresponding call to
> | sqlite3_backup_finish().
> 
> However, this applies only to the connection object itself, not to the
> database.  Both source and destination databases are correctly locked
> within transactions, and can be open in other connections.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Clemens
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