Subject Re: [firebird-support] FireBird 1.5 backups
Author Christian Gütter
Hi Eugene,

> I would like to have daily backups of GDB file. Should i use GBAK
> utility for that...And probably put that in a Windows Scheduler
> midnight task or so...
> How usually people organize FireBird backup policy?

I am using GBAK and the Windows scheduler.
But you should also do another step: restore the backup to a different
path, so that you can make sure that your backup is restorable.
In addition to that, I use BLAT (a command line mailer) to mail the
backup and restore log to my inbox.


Christian


PS: There are some 3rd party products for backup & restore, too.