I thought that the missing double quotes might be the culprit, so I tried it
again. Here's what I got:

C:\Program Files\Firebird\Firebird_1_5\bin>gbak -b
"d:\Firebird\techsol-host.gdb" d:\Firebird\techsol-host.fbk -user sysdba
-password xxxxxx
gbak: ERROR: unavailable database
gbak: Exiting before completion due to errors

Myles

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Myles Wakeham
Director of Engineering
Tech Solutions Inc.
Scottsdale, Arizona USA
Phone (480) 451-7440
Web: www.techsol.org

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Helen Borrie [mailto:helebor@...]
> Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 4:13 PM
> To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [firebird-support] GBAK not working correctly - Windows 1.5
> Dialect 1
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> 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\emplo
> yee.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
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