Hello,

on 2002-02-25, I wrote:

> Instead I started to write my own assistent for adding GBAK
> jobs to the windows scheduler. This project is not completed

I've uploaded a test version and some screen shots of my
Firebird GBAK Task Wizard to my homepage[*]. At the moment,
the web page and the software is in German only; and source
code (Delphi 5) is not available yet.
After some code cleanup, I will release this program to
open source (what would be the suitable licence; GPL, LGPL,
MPL? I have no expirences with that!).

This Wizard was designed for an easy setup of automatically
database backup, using the Windows Task Scheduler. In fact,
you'll need Windows NT4 or above to run this Wizard.

Some features (almost completed):
- uses Windows Task Scheduler for automatically backup
- uses Firebird GBAK to perform the backup task
- auto-detection of gbak.exe
- database username and password verification
- ZIP file compression for backup file
- creating backup protocol
- printing or eMail (SMTP) the backup protocol
- error event logging ("Ereignisanzeige")

Planned features:
- smart backup set (like GBakScheduler)
- optional sweep task (via GFIX)
- tape drive support (via GBAK.EXE)

[*] http://www.achim-kalwa.de/fb.html


Achim