Subject RE: [firebird-support] Firebird 1.5 to Firebird 1.0
Author Alan McDonald
> Hello,
>
> We have a client that wants to move his database to another server.
> He is using Version 1.5 of Firebird but the new server is using
> Version 1.0.
>
> Is it possible to backup the database using 1.5 and then restoring
> to 1.0? I know we haven't used anything new in version 1.5 that
> isn't supported by version 1.0.
>
> To avoid a bunch of questions about why I need to do this ... The
> new server has about 10 databases on it with about 20 gigs of data.
> They don't want to go through an upgrade to version 1.5 for a few
> weeks because of the time it will take to backup and restore all the
> databases.
>
> Thanks
>
> Todd
>
>

might be easier to install version 1 on the same machine (i.e. 2 instances
of Firebird) and run the older version on another port.
Alan