Marco Parmeggiani wrote:

> I have a buch of seperservers running around. Some are 1.0.2 running under
> Linux, some are 1.0.3 running on Windows. I want to make some backups
> using
> gbak and the service_mgr (-se switch). On the machine i use to launch
> these
> backups, i've installed Firebird 1.5 and so i'm using gbak coming from 1.5
> to do the above stuff.
> What i've found is that when i use gbak in conjunction with a 1.0 server,
> the server crashes. Maybe it's "normal" but having found nothing on
> the 1.5
> release note, i'm asking here.
> ciao

Yes, as winXP would crash with an old msvcrt.dll from win98!
And yes, some versions are backward compatible to previous versions.

I wouldn't just try to use gbak 1.5 for fb 1.0.x

Uwe