Derek,

And just a reminder: don't forget that the fact that GBak end's without an
error does not garantee that you have a restorable backup. You must restore
it somehere to make sure.

Artur

----- Original Message -----
From: "Derek Basch" <dbasch@...>
To: <ib-support@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 8:30 PM
Subject: [ib-support] Re: simple gbak question


> Thanks Helen,
> I will trigger an exception if any text is returned and assume
> success if none.
> Derek Basch
>
>
> --- In ib-support@y..., Helen Borrie <helebor@t...> wrote:
> > At 08:02 PM 16-10-02 +0000, Derek Basch wrote:
> > >Is it normal for a successfull backup using gbak to return no
> text?
> > >I am calling gbak with a pipe from python and I wanted to make
> sure.
> >
> > Yes. It only verbalises if the backup fails. I recall Bill
> Karwin once
> > mentioning that a successful backup returns an OS errcode of 0
> (which a
> > Windows .bat file can respond to with a message) but I don't know
> about
> > other OSs..
> >
> > heLen
>