Alexandre Benson Smith wrote:

> Hi ! Raymond,
>
> Raymond Kennington wrote:
>
> >With Interbase 1.56 I have never had a problem running gbak. Now I have
> >spent a long time trying many variations of parameters and have read
> >many list messages and pages on the internet. I've checked FAQs, and
> >technical specifications, starting documents and manuals.
> >
> >I am running XP1.1 and Firebird 1.5.
> >
> >IBExpert's backup menu command uses GBAK and it works perfectly well.
> >
> >Error messages include:
> > can't find file
> > I/O error for file "SYSDBA"
> >
> > username and password are not defined.
> >
> >[in the next case I had copied gbak.exe to d:\temp, which is where
> >cms.gdb resides.]
> >
> > I/O error for file "cms.gdb"
> > cannot find the file specified
> >
> >A batch file for backing up the Interbase 5 version of cms5.gdb works
> >fine on an NT 4.0 w/s running Interbase but does not run on the XP1.1
> >m/c running Firebird 1.5.
> >
> >How is this made to work?
> >
> >Raymond Kennington
> >
> >
> >
> >
> Don't know if I get your problem, since your are familiar with
> Interbase, maybe my message could look simplist, but I will try to help you.
>
> try this one:
>
> gbak localhost:d:\temp\cms.gdb d:\temp\cms.gbk -user sysdba -password
> masterkey

I have just tried that, but then gbak wants to connect, but cannot ---
because the database is located on the same computer as the server.

Raymond.

>
> see you !
>
> --
>
> Alexandre Benson Smith