Hello, Steven!

>gbak: ERROR: I/O error for file "C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\FAX_PA~1"

>I have a table named FAX_PARAMETERS but I am not sure why gbak is
>looking in another directory for this file. Is there any way I can
>remove this dependency? I am not really concerned about the restore I
>just need to make sure future backups do not have this problem.

As I can suppose, you have some external tables (FAX_PARAMETERS is one of
them) and you need to backup this database,
and then restore it to another location, right?

To backup external tables as usual tables, you need to add switch -convert
to gbak backup command line:
gbak -b -g -v -convert ...

And advice - do not restore with switch -r. If you don't like to have
problems, of course.
Instead this just restore with -c to another file name and after that rename
them.

Sincerely yours,
Alexey Kovyazin
http://www.ibsurgeon.com
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