At 01:21 PM 30-11-01 -0500, you wrote:

> > Are you using a transportable backup or a normal one?
> > For all cross platform backups backup up the database in transportable
> > format.
>
>How is this done? I think that may be the key to my problem as well.

Using the gbak belonging to the original database, with the -t[ransportable] option:

gbak -b -t x:\path\mydb.gdb x:\path\backup\mydb.gbk

then, using the gbak belonging to the new platform:

gbak -c /usr/databases/backup/mydb.gbk /usr/databases/mydb.gdb

Helen


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