At 02:54 AM 22/04/2005 +0000, you wrote:

>--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Helen Borrie <helebor@t...>
>wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "Mark Birch"
> > ><mark_birch@l...> wrote:
> > > >
> >
> > Not moi.
> >
> > >So, how are they going to backup/restore if the database is on
> > > > a different file system (HD) from the server?
> > > >
> > > > Or am I on the completely wrong track....?
> >
> > At 04:49 AM 21/04/2005 +0000, Mick Arundell wrote:
> >
> > >Yes.
> > >Firebird database must be on a disk directly controlled by firebird
> > >They do not need to be the same disk.
> >
> > They don't have to be on the same machine, either. A gbak file is
>just a
> > file, it's not a database. You can use a network share or mapping as
>the
> > destination for a gbak backup file, as long as it is known to the
>host on
> > which the Services Manager is running.
> >
> > ./heLen
>
>I would be pleased to be wrong :) a not unusual occurrence but I
>understand that though GBak can see the network from its host it can
>only backup databases that are on its host.

Correct all along. My apologies for not reading carefully enough to notice
that Mark (and you) at this point were talking about *the database file*
(not the backup file) being remote from the server.

>For my clients it would be handy to have backups from fb server to
>another box.
>probably at sometime in the future

They can now: to a mounted filesystem on Linux or a mapped drive on
Windows. Are you talking here about a Windows or a Linux server?

./heLen