Alex,

Indeed, I read in list's archive a posting of Ann regarding running a grep 5.6 version in a FB/IB 6 environment to regress...

So I initiated such a gbak at remote site (must be done by an administrator manually). I'm quite sure it will work.

Thank you for replying.

Mit freundlichem Gruss & Best Regards

Andreas Pohl
apohl@...
www.ibp-consult.com

> > How can I achieve this?
>
> Andreas, try copy gbak 5.6 onto FB machine and make backup with it.
> It should'nt work if database have IB6/FB specific inside, perhaps
> some problems with numerics can appear, but I know this method was
> implemented to save 5.6 database which run out of limit on amount of
> transactions. It was backed up/restored on FB server and then
> downgraded with this trick.
>
> Best regards, Alexander V.Nevsky.
>