Hi James,

> I have made a backup using the old firebird which uses *.gbk and when
> I restore it using the firebird 1.5 it still uses the old file
> extension *.gdb. Ins't that firebird 1.5 uses the *.fdb extension?

Firebird can use any extension that you like - and when you
restore, you're assigning the extension, not Firebird.

> Do we have a problem here? or what should have done?

Well, one thing you should do is subscribe to the list called
"ib-support" at Yahoogroups - that is a support list, while
this list isn't.


With regards,

Martijn Tonies
Database Workbench - the developer tool for InterBase & Firebird
Upscene Productions
http://www.upscene.com