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Question About Command Line Backup of Locked DB

(1) By anonymous on 2021-04-15 21:01:27 [link] [source]

If I use the command line .backup command to backup a locked database, are the transactions from the WAL file included in this new backup or not?

(2) By Richard Hipp (drh) on 2021-04-15 21:19:26 in reply to 1 [source]

Probably. But I'm not sure what you mean by a "locked database" so I can't be sure.