Hello,

are the following steps a good approach to restore a Pervasive DB SQL v 8.6 (on W2K3)?


- telling the users to stop "accessing" the db and quitting the db-client/apps

- shutdown the db with net stop "Pervasive SQL (relational)" and
net stop "Pervasive SQL (transactional)"

- and restore the necessary files e.g. with a backup-software

- restart the db with net start "Pervasive SQL (relational)" and
net start "Pervasive SQL (transactional)"


Or can that be done more easier and reliable with the Pervasive
Backup Agent?



Thank's a lot for any tip,

John

That's the way you need to restore data files. Backup Agent is designed for creating Backups not restoring them.
To restore a backup, you'll need to stop the engines.