> >a client has Firebird 1.5 over Win2k and Interbase 6 over NT4. So I am
> >trying to backup all databases from 1 .batch
> >The problem is that gbak (from firebird\bin) works only for Firebirds
> >databases, but when I try to backup the database from interbase it fails,
> >so I had to copy gbak.exe from interbase into a "temp" directory to be
> >able to backup that database. Is it possible to make it work with
> >firebird's gbak.exe?


> It wouldn't solve your problem. Firebird's gbak will make a backup file
> that has to be restored by Firebird's gbak, and Firebird's gbak makes
> Firebird (not InterBase) databases. InterBase 6 server wouldn't be able to
> read the backup file if you needed to restored the database.

mmm, but I am actually using Interbase's GBAK.exe to create the backup file,
and then using Firebird's gbak.exe to restore it to the Firebird Server, and
it works ok, so does this means that I can not use Firebird's gbak to read
intebase's DBs, but the .gbk file is 100% compliant?, and that is why I can
restore it with a different gbak.exe?


Regards,
Fabian.