I must be doing somthing wrong, I issue the command and the ibserver goes to
98% use but does nothing...

Here is the command I am using (To make it clear, I am separating it into
sections, but, it is all one line)

gbak -r -user 'dont' -password 'useit' -v -y restore.out -p 16384 -bu 1024
-se service_mgr
/home/ib/cur/back01.gbk /home/ib/cur/back02.gbk /home/ib/cur/back03.gbk
/home/ib/cur/back04.gbk /home/ib/cur/back05.gbk /home/ib/cur/back06.gbk
/home/ib/cur/back07.gbk /home/ib/cur/back08.gbk /home/ib/cur/back09.gbk
/home/ib/cur/back10.gbk /home/ib/cur/back11.gbk /home/ib/cur/back12.gbk
/home/ib/cur/back13.gbk /home/ib/cur/back14.gbk /home/ib/cur/back15.gbk
/home/ib/cur/back16.gbk /home/ib/cur/back17.gbk /home/ib/cur/back18.gbk
/home/ib/cur/back19.gbk
/home/ib/cur/mcf.001 130000 /home/ib/cur/mcf.002 130000
/home/ib/cur/mcf.003 130000 /home/ib/cur/mcf.004 130000
/home/ib/cur/mcf.005 130000 /home/ib/cur/mcf.006 130000
/home/ib/cur/mcf.007 130000 /home/ib/cur/mcf.008 130000
/home/ib/cur/mcf.009 130000 /home/ib/cur/mcf.010 130000
/home/ib/cur/mcf.011 130000 /home/ib/cur/mcf.012 130000
/home/ib/cur/mcf.013 130000 /home/ib/cur/mcf.014 130000
/home/ib/cur/mcf.015 130000 /home/ib/cur/mcf.016 130000
/home/ib/cur/mcf.017 130000 /home/ib/cur/mcf.018 130000
/home/ib/cur/mcf.019 130000 /home/ib/cur/mcf.020 130000
/home/ib/cur/mcf.021 130000 /home/ib/cur/mcf.022 130000
/home/ib/cur/mcf.023 130000 /home/ib/cur/mcf.024 130000
/home/ib/cur/mcf.025 130000 /home/ib/cur/mcf.026 130000
/home/ib/cur/mcf.027 130000 /home/ib/cur/mcf.028 130000
/home/ib/cur/mcf.029 130000 /home/ib/cur/mcf.030 130000
/home/ib/cur/mcf.031 130000 /home/ib/cur/mcf.032 130000
/home/ib/cur/mcf.033 130000 /home/ib/cur/mcf.034 130000
/home/ib/cur/mcf.035 130000 /home/ib/cur/mcf.036 130000
/home/ib/cur/mcf.037 130000 /home/ib/cur/mcf.038 130000
/home/ib/cur/mcf.039 130000 /home/ib/cur/mcf.040 130000

As you can see, I am restoring 19 files that reside in the /home/ib/cur
directory to a 40 file database that is to reside in the same directory.

Is there a limit to how much the gbak program can parse?

The gbak process sits idle, the restore.out file does not get created, there
is no error message, one of the three ibserver processes runs at 98%
continuously (overnight so far).

Is this a bug I found or is somthing else going on?

The machine is a AMD Athlon 2000 with 1GB ram and over 1TB of storage.
It is running Linux Mandrake 8.2 and Firebird 1.0

best regards

Dalton