Subject RE: [firebird-support] dump/restore
Author Alan McDonald
> Hello all,
>
> Well, after several years of using Postgres, DB2, Oracle... here
> am I with the
> interbase/firebird...
>
> I would like to know if there is an "utility" that can do
> dump/restore of the
> database not only using gbak, but unloading the full database
> with all of the
> tables in text format, that is: I need to export the database to
> somewhere
> else in Postgres, I use pg_dump and it exports the database in
> text format
> of creating tables, and than inserting data into tables...
>
> I used the isql -exportall db > db.dump but it only exports the
> ddl, not the
> data that is in the tables...
>
> My question:
>
> Is there a program (preferable without gui), that exports the data of the
> tables (all the tables)???
> this for sure would fix the corruption problem, as the data could
> be edited
> and than reloaded in the database (pg_dump, or sqlplus does it...)
>
> For several days I search internet and found none...
>
> Thanks for the help
>
> Sergio

IBexpert will do this.
You extract the ddl, then you extract all data. Justnote that blob fields
are stored in .lob files and all other data is exported to SQL insert
statements.

Alan