At 06:59 PM 11/02/2005 -0700, you wrote:

>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

So is this Classic or Superserver?

Have you tried

C:\Program Files\Firebird\Firebird_1_5\bin>gbak -b -se
localhost:service_mgr d:\Firebird\techsol-host.gdb
d:\Firebird\techsol-host.fbk -user sysdba -password xxxxxx

./heLen