> That's because IBExpert uses IBBackupService, which runs the backup
> routines via macro calls through the Services API - as does
> IBOBackupService. Gbak does too, in its own way - its embedded
> (i.e. ESQL)
> code executes the same routines as the macro that is being
> accessed by the
> Services API.
>
> ./hb

Can't we make it, then, use a current connection rather than try to make a
new one? Or is a connection to the Services API necessarily a separate
connection?

Alan