Alexandre Benson Smith wrote:

>if I run a gbak from the client machine it runs VERY slow
>gbak server:alias alias.fbk -user sysdba -password masterkey -v -t
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Probably your verbose (-v) option. As someone pointed
somewhere (I have such a superb memory :-)), the Interbase/
Firebird protocol is chatty and performs really bad on a
slow connection.

Ivan.