At 03:45 PM 11/25/2002 +0000, Phil Shrimpton wrote:

>On Monday 25 November 2002 16:56, you wrote:
>
>Hi,
>
> > I would expect that if the system independent backup format is the same for
> > IB and for FB it would be possible to backup IB 7 with its own gbak and
> > restore with the gbak of FB to FB
>
>Unless you are using 'features' in IB that FB does not have, then it fails!
>It is the same the other way round as well (trying to restore a FB database
>in IB that uses FB only features)

If you want to backup an InterBase database (for example) and restore it
as Firebird, this is the procedure. Copy the firebird gbak program to
a system that has InterBase installed. Use it to make a backup of the
database. Restore that backup on a system that has Firebird installed.

Since the gbak doesn't know about features that Firebird doesn't handle,
this should work fine.

The reason for running gbak on a system with InterBase is to get a
gds32.dll that talks nicely with InterBase. When we use a different
name for our dll, this may be a bit more tricky, but should still be
possible.


Regards,

Ann
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