>> I noticed, that if I do backup via FireBird Service API, then the
>> backup file is always stored on the server. Is there any way to store
>> the backup on the client, when backing up database from the client via
>> Service API?

AM> No - only gbak gives this oppotunity

And how is it implemented in gbak? Does it create backup file itself,
or it relies on firebird API to do that? I wonder what is the chance of
this functionality to be moved from gbak to firebird API.

Valentin Samko
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