> At 10:04 AM 18/02/2005 +0000, you wrote:
>
> >I have a FB 1.5 db running on a remote web server. How would I back
> >this up to my own local machine, bearing in mind that I do not own the
> >web server.
>
> You can do a backup remotely, provided you are logged in as SYSDBA or the
> database owner. The latter is the more likely, since the hosting service
> wouldn't (or shouldn't) give you SYSDBA access. However, you must back up
> to a file that is local to the host server, in a location to
> which you have
> at least group rwx permissions.
>

but if you use gbak (not services api), you can pull the gbk file back to
the local filesystem during the backup. You don't need to do it to the
server's local filesystem.
Alan