--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "Alan McDonald" <alan@m...>
wrote:

> 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

I got my hosting company to provide a pointer to the db, and from
there, I can ftp to my own machine.

Thanks again to everybody who replied to my query.

Regards
David