Hi,

I have been using Interbase for some years (currently IB6). I try to migrate
to firebird 1.5 classic server on Windows XP.

Keeping IB6 on the same machine, I installed firebird 1.5 seemingly without
any trouble. I made a backup file of our database with IB's gbak (actually
with IBX service component ) before I installed FB. After installation of
FB, I tried to restore the backup file with FB's gbak.exe, and I got

gbak: gbak version WI-V1.5.0.4306 Firebird 1.5
gbak: ERROR: unavailable database
gbak: ERROR: failed to creaste database \fbdata\newdatabase.fdb
gbak: ERROR: Exiting before completion due to errors

I did this in the bin directory under the FB root, like
gbak -z -r -user xxx -password yyy \fbdata\backup.gbk
\fbdata\newdatabase.fdb

I must be missing something obvious. Can anyone help this FB-newbie?

Regards,
Nobuya Higuchi