Nico,

> I just installed Firebird alpha 3. I can do a backup without
> problems, but when I try to do a restore, it fails, with the
> following messages :
>
> gbak: opened file c:\trislotdb.gbk
> gbak: transportable backup -- data in XDR format
> gbak: backup file is compressed
> gbak: ERROR: cannot attach to password database
> gbak: ERROR: failed to create database c:\trislotdb.gdb
> gbak: Exiting before completion of errors
>
> My gbak command line is the following :
>
> C:\Progra~1\firebird\bin\gbak -page_size 4096 -verbose -create -user
> SYSDBA -password masterkey c:\trislotdb.gbk c:\trislotdb.gdb
>
> The strange thing is : I'm already using this command line for more
> then a year.

Have you run instreg.exe from the alpha package? v1.5 alpha uses different
registry keys than IB6/FB1. Look at
HKLM/Software/Firebird/FirebirdSQL/CurrentVersion and check that the values
are set correctly.


Dmitry