At 06:24 AM 10/12/2004 +0000, you wrote:

>hello
>
>I am using a firebird 1.5.1 embedded server.
>There is one problem that i am facing while taking backup from gbak
>i am running gbak from my application calling it and passing all the
>params to it. but the backup is not taken now when i run the programm
>from the prompt the message comes as "DATABASE UNAVAILABLE" but when i
>start the service the backup works fine.
>
>Now My question is, Is Firebird service required to take backup by
>gbak?

No. But you need to have gbak in the same directory as the embedded
client/server library and you must rename that library as fbclient.dll.

./heLen