"Dimitry Sibiryakov" <aafemt@...> wrote:

>
> gfix -shut call the engine, AFAIU.

So what? It doesn't make it ODS dependent in any way.

> Really? You can run FB2 gbak against IB5 server?

Yes, I can. It's handled by backup capabilities (they depend on ODS being
backed up). I think your point is that GBAK should also become single-ODS?
If so, then I'd agree with your reasoning.

> No. As I wrote a long time ago, gbak must become a stupid utility
> that just receive binary stream from engine and store it in file(s).

It's discussable but obviously neither for Vulcan nor for FB3.


Dmitry