At 01:49 PM 21/12/2004 +0000, you wrote:

>So my question now is : Does gbak also use the local client library
>(fbclient.dll) or not ? Depending on the answer to this I can either
>pinpoint the problem to strictly IBE, or still have to suspect
>fbclient.dll, which means my own apps still might be in trouble :-(

You *can* run gbak from a remote client's command line, in which case you
have to use the -service_mgr switch. Your client copy of gbak is just a
messenger, it doesn't perform the backup itself.

If you run a backup or restore remotely from an app like IBE, that uses
Borland's Services API components, then the service_mgr call to the server
is encapsulated in the operation and your client copy of gbak is unused.

./hb