> I know there has been some discussion about how to use gbak to backup a
> database and then restore it on a target machine, but what if you wish to
> include a FDB file with a single user installer that is run embedded on
> Windows? Will the FDB file copy from one machine to another and
> just needs
> to be installed as another file on the target machine? Will that work?
>
> Myles

You can always copy an fdb file IF and ONLY IF you are sure that you have
exclusive access to it and the server is not running with the threat of
someone opoening the file while you are copying it.
If this FDB file is coming out of an installer and is not overwriting an
existing fdb file which is in use, then I can't see any problems with
distributing the file like this.
I'm just going thru the planning of this myself and it will be tempting to
do it this way.
A restore does add the increased security of balking at restoring over an
existing file though.
Alan