--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Robert martin <rob@c...>
wrote:

>
> Hi
>
> Further information I have discovered. In a different part of our

app

> we also do backups and this fails with a 'cannot attach to services
> manager'. I have done a web search and see old reports that this

was a

> problem with IB 6.0 and FB Classic as the services manager was not
> implemented in the classic versions. Has it been?

From the quick start guide:
http://www.firebirdsql.org/devel/doc/manual/defaulthtml/qsg15-classic-
or-super.html

Classic:

1.5: Partially implemented Services Manager, supporting tasks like
backup/restore, database shutdown etc. over the network. Other
service tasks have to be performed locally using the client tools
(small separate executables) that come with Firebird.

1.5.1 and up: full Services Manager.

Note:

IBX is a componentset developed by Borland to connect to Interbase
that just happens to work with Firebird because the Firebird and
Interbase API have not forked to the extent where it no longer works.

Try to do a number of tests.

1. Does using aliases resolve the issue?
2. Do you have the same problem invoking the backup service using
gbak with -se switch?
3. Does it work if the database is moved to a location where no space
is required?

If you are able to have success with 1 and 2, then it must be a
limitation of IBX. I do use the IBX backup service in a daily basis,
but I would have to check my code as it has been a few months now.
However I connect to the databases using aliases. In fact, my backup
process reads the aliases.conf file and backs up each alias within a
particular base folder to a fbk file named whatever the alias is
called. It then restores to a temporary location to be sure. So I
can't tell you whether the spaces are confusing things.

Adam