At 09:55 AM 18/07/2004 +1000, I wrote:

>Better still, don't try to use shellexecute, which is likely to give you
>problems with spaces in the gbak path string, e.g. Program Files. Instead,
>use the IBOBackupService component from the IBOAdmin suite of Lorenzo
>Mengoni (www.mengoni.it)

Here's a link to source for a simple gbak demo utility using
IBOBackupService, that you can adapt to suit.

File : /BackupService.zip
Uploaded by : helebor <helebor@...>
Description : Backup app demo using TIBOBackupService

You can access the file at the URL

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IBObjects/files/BackupService.zip

/heLen