Re: [Firebird-net-provider] Backup with fbembed cannot open database file

[Jiri C. <di...@ci...>]

On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 10:40 PM, Pierre Arnaud <pie...@op...> wrote:
> It's an FbException wrapping an IscException with the following message:
>
>   I/O error during "CreateFile (open)" operation for file
>   "C:\PROGRAMDATA\FOO\BAR.FIREBIRD"
>   Error while trying to open file

Well, this is more or less generic error. Do you have access to that path?

> and if I watch what happens with ProcMon.exe, I see that there is an
> attempt to open the database file, which fails because of a sharing
> issue.

I don't know what you mean by "sharing", but once you have results
from procmon you can see why exactly the operation failed.

> What I find suspect, is the fact that calling FbBackup the first time
> seems to load fbembed.dll and various other related files; however, all
> these files have already been loaded previously.

It doesn't matter. But you can always try to do backup (just for test)
before any other operation.

> Should this work with the embedded server? Might I have an issue of DLL

Yes.

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