--- In Firebird-Java@yahoogroups.com, Roman Rokytskyy <rrokytskyy@...>
wrote:

>
> > However, this may have lead us to the problem... we did not mention
> > but we are trying to run the (services API) backup from a Win2K
> > machine and the database itself is on an Intel Mac. The Mac is running
> > Classic server.
>
> Does any other operation with Mac server via Jaybird work fine?

Yes, we have many live Mac clients, they all go well. Currently our
clients use Firebird Classic server (1.5.x) on PPC and Intel Macs (we
had to build Firebird from source for the latter), and currently we
use the v1.5 Jaybird driver which works without problem, connecting to
either Macs, PCs or linux.
(We want the 2.1.1 Jaybird driver especially so we can use the
services API.)

> > We've tested this by pointing the backup to another Windows machine
> > (running Super server) and the backup worked fine.
> >
> > We haven't seen anything to say that the services manager is not
> > available in the Classic server - is this what the problem is?
>
> As far as I know, backup service is available in Classic in v 1.5
> already. Maybe this is issue with Mac port?
>
> You could try
>
> gbak -service -user sysdba -pass abcdef 192.168.0.123:MyDatabase
> MyDatabase.fbk
>
> using gbak from Firebird 2.0.

Is the -service parameter only available in FB 2.0?
Also in our 'real' or 'live' customer sites, most client machines
(that the backup will be run from via JDBC) won't have gbak since they
won't have Firebird on them (only the remote DB server will have
Firebird) - this is why we need to use the JDBC services API. We've
only tested gbak to see whether the remote backup works in theory...

Thanks Roman,
Phil