> >> 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
> http://val.samko.info

As I understand it - when you use the API, you are just asking the server to
do it (i.e. it's just an instruction to teh server to make an action) and
the server only knows it's own environment.
When you ask gbak to do it, you are making a client connection and the
server is passing all info back to this client to with it as the client
knows.
Not sure if the API will ever be able to do this
Alan