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

> > 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

I had been using the GUI only and didn't even consider this option (of
using the command line client.) thanks!