I am having the CD with the GBK sent to me ( I was doing this over PC
Anywhere ) so I will come back tomorrow with more details.
Thanks for those who have responded

Rod

--- In ib-support@y..., "Ann W. Harrison" <aharrison@i...> wrote:
> At 10:39 AM 9/26/2002 +0000, rodbracher wrote:
>
> >After each table is restored - it reports how many records were
> >restored - the figures are correct.
> >
> >But when I view the tables in IBConsole - they are all empty.
>
> Did the restore finish with a success message? What message did
> it finish with? The behavior of gbak is to rollback all data
> if it encounters an error. If that happened, the symptoms would
> be just what you describe. The other way to get the same symptoms
> would be to open the database before the restore had completed.
> That one is transient - wait until gbak gives its success message
> then look.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Ann
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