> Or even better: Run gbak on the file server and backup the
> database directly
> to the fileserver that way.
>
> > That would be much safer.
>
> ... and faster.
>
> Regards,
> Steffen

Why so? it's the server which takes the time, not gbak.. I would have
thought running it on the server is as fast. The copying across the network
after gbak has completed would be less onerous on resources too then doing
it during the backup procedure.
Alan