Johan van Zyl wrote:

> In Database Workbench?
> Well I tried /db/bx/bx.fbk and it did not work.
> Complained "ERROR: cannot open backup file /db/bx/bx.fbk "

Let's see, you have:

A Firebird server on Linux with database.
Windows client.

You try to backup database on Linux to local path. Have you tried gbak?

gbak -b /path/to/database.fdb /path/to/backup/file.fbk

Does this work?

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