> It seems that there is not a way to do a complete backup of Firebird
> via SQL statements... I love Firebird but I do miss that feature of
> Postgres.
>
> Hmm.. I think I smell a project for me.. ;)

IBExpert will extract table contents into SQL statments - blobs are created
as separate files.
You can use the scripting engine to automate this if you want.
Alan