Johannes,

> With the Embeded server you can distribute the GDB database with the app,
> but I have read that the file system
> can be a problem, thus a transportable backup is rather recommended and a
> restore on the new file system.

You don't install it, you distribute it togheter with your application.
Well, maybe you will need to do a transportable backup if you develop your
application for windows in a intel PC and if your user will be using NT on a
Alfa computer, for example.
You will need to take care just about your end-user CPU.

> Now in the Embeded scenario, can one make a restore of the database, as
> there is no gbak.exe file with the distribution set ?

You can always distribute gbak as well.

> Further I would like to make my app that does use Embeded server to have
> nightly or weekly backup's of the database. Now we
> normaly did this with the NT scheduler. What is the recommened solution

for

> this ? Possible component control ?

The same.
If you are using Delphi, take a look at IBOAdmin:
http://www.mengoni.it/downloads.html
I use it inside my application and it works great with embedded and
backup/restore.
Just make sure that your application isn't running when you do the backups.
That will be another connection, and you are restricted to a single
connection.

Artur


Artur