Thank Helen and others ... I think you have answer my question.

" I know of no way to have the services manager on Windows write the
gbak file to a disk that is remote from the server " ... this was my
first concern. I need to learn more about the service manager. Thank.

rap
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--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Helen Borrie <helebor@t...>
wrote:

> At 04:55 PM 22/01/2005 +0000, you wrote:
>
>
> >How to backup on different machine? Exemple, i connect to a remote
> >databse and i want the backup file on my local machine.
>
> You use the -se[rvice_mgr] switch.
>
> I know of no way to have the services manager on Windows write the gbak
> file to a disk that is remote from the server; but you can take a

network

> copy afterwards. However, see my extra note (**) at the end of this

message.

>
>
> >I have a second question : How can i change de default value :
> >"C:\Program" in the security database (isc4.gdb).. is this the default
> >path were the security backup is put?
>
> Sorry, I don't know what you are talking about here. Backing the

security

> database is no different from backing up any database. You have to

supply

> a valid path where the backup file is to be written. There is no

"default

> path". If you supply only a file name, the file will be written to the
> first location found in the system path, e.g. on Win32, this is

usually the

> system32 directory. The moral is: supply a path.
>
> Here's how to do a remote backup from a properly set up Windows

client with

> the correct client tools for the server version that is running on the
> remote host.
>
> Since you say your security database is isc4.gdb, we'll assume you are
> running a Firebird 1 server and you have the Firebird 1 tools

installed on

> the client. Here's how to back up isc4.gdb remotely.
>
> Get into the directory where gbak.exe is. Let's suppose that the remote
> host's hostname is MonServeur and you want to write the backup file

to an

> existing directory named d:\backups.
>
> gbak -b -se MonServeur:service_mgr "c:\Program Files\Firebird\isc4.gdb"
> d:\backups\isc4_20050123.fbk -user sysdba -password masterkey
>
> Adjust syntax accordingly if client, server is on Linux.
>
> Note (**) Theoretically you *should* be able to designate a backup

file

> path that is remote from the server. On Linux, you can write the

backup

> file to a mounted drive that has read/write permissions. Even on

Windows,

> running gbak locally, you can write the file to a network drive. But
> Windows gbak running under service_mgr seems to baulk about it,

every time...

>
> ./heLen