Valentin Samko wrote:

>>>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.
>

GBAK is a application that call the library BURP.
The services API call BURP too.

I had proposed the same feature 5 months ago:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=9718596

And the replies:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=9720121
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=9773343

FB developers do not like new features.


Adriano