At 10:25 PM 6/6/2001 +0700, Andy Canfield wrote:

>My (working) command line under Windows 98 SE:
> gbak -B -USER SYSDBA -PASSWORD masterkey -VERIFY D:\Database\OOP.GDB
> OOP.GBK
>...
>-VERIFY (I forget why but it sounds nice)

That's actually VERBOSE ....

>D:\Database\OOP.GDB = the database name. I suspect that gbak.exe must run
>on the machine where the database is.

No. gbak is just another application - runs just fine across
the network. In the early Cretaceous period, before we had
transportable backups, the way to move a database was to run
gbak on the target system and attach to the copy of the database
on the source system.


Regards,

Ann
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