> Theoretically, yes, as long as you can be sure that the target

machine has

> the same architecture as the machine that created the database, i.e.

a db

> created on Win32 is copied to Linux on an ix86 machine.

Windows-to-Windows

> shouldn't be a problem.
>
> Practically, I would recommend deploying the database as a

transportable

> gbak file and have your installer invoke gbak, or a Services API
> application, on the target machine to create and restore the FDB

file. A

> new installation should start out with a squeaky-clean database...
>

I had transferred databases from MS Windows to MS Windows and from Mac
OSX to Mac OSX. No sweat at all. For OSX, I did a secure copy and it
runs through a ssh tunnel.

I see this a big advantage over Postgres, from what I've naively done.

maurice