Hi Set,

> I think we experienced the same thing, only from one Windows server to
> another Windows server. Though this was just a table I'd used once and
> forgotten to delete, so we simply deleted it and made a new backup (or
> rather, thinking about it - I think Aage created an empty file with
> the name in question and successfully made a restore). I didn't even
> think enough about it to consider the unlikely to have happened - that
> we had encountered a new Firebird bug in a stable version...

Well, the "bug" thing can be discussed, but obviously, this simply will
never work when converting from one platform to another which uses
a different path/file notation.

> Just a note to tell that the problem may not be limited to
> Linux->Windows.

Windows to Linux as well, I guess :-)

>Though it may be a bug that only bite people chewing
> Bamsemums.

I doubt it ... haven't been chewing those in a long time now :-(

With regards,

Martijn Tonies
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