Craig Stevens wrote:

> I am trying to backup from my local machine, a simple .fdb file using
> gbak again locally, under the \bin of the current running firebird server,
>
> i always get this error,
>
> unavailable database -
>
> i tried all the permutations of localhost, my own machine name, no
> name, server, etc etc, and made sure the sysdba exists and has correct
> password...
>
> cant find out why ???

Post some examples of exactly what you are asking Gbak to run against.

Regards
Andy