Thanks Peter,
Can you give me an example of how you use gbak in this case? I can't see how
I could specify the
backup location without knowing the path that the alias refers to as well,
or at least another local
path on the server to make the backup file.


Graeme


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Hi Graeme


Gbak does actually work on aliases , this is the way I use it in my
systems.

Rgds

Peter

On 26 Apr 2005 at 6:17, graeme_edwards2000 wrote:

>
> Does anybody know if it is possible for a client machine in a windows
> network environment to access settings from either aliases.conf or
> firebird.conf on the server programmatically?
>
> The assumption is that the firebird folder on the server is not
> available directly to the client machine.
>
> The reason I ask is because I want to simplify the process of users
> referencing databases on a remote server without losing the ability
to
> backup the database from the client end.
>
> It doesn't appear that gbak is capable of referring to an alias, it
> needs the full path on the server machine and I want the client
> machine to be able to reference server databases by alias, while
the
> full path name is not visible to the user, but the application will
> know it for purposes of backing up/restoring.
>
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