At 10:43 AM 11/02/2005 -0700, Myles Wakeham wrote:

>I'm getting a strange error message on a Firebird 1.5 database created with
>SQL Dialect 1. When I try and run GBAK on this database, it refuses to
>connect to it, giving an error: Error Unavailable Database.
>
>I can connect to this database with any FB Admin program (ie. EMS Hi-Tech's
>IBManager) but can't run a backup from there either.
>
>Any ideas?

Myles,

C:\Program Files\Firebird\Firebird_1_5\bin>
gbak -b
"H:\Borland.Distros\interbase_6_0_1_Windows\server\examples\database\employee.gdb"
l:\data\test\emp_d1_ib6.gbk

just worked fine here, using the Fb 1.5.2 SS gbak on a dialect 1 ODS 10.0
database.

Some ideas.

1. Are you perhaps inadvertently trying to use the gbak program from a
lower ODS release, e.g. Fb 1 or IB?
2. Are you running the backup from a remote client? If so, you'll need the
service_mgr switches.
3. Are you running a Windows Classic server? 2) applies then ( -se
localhost:service_mgr )
4. Do you have the database in a directory that is being shared? or is
locked by some program other than the Firebird server at filesystem level?

Can't think of anything else

./heLen