Subject Re: FW: gbak can restore from DOS but not from CygWin
Author Adam
--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "James Calfee" <jcalfee@...>
wrote:
>
> > WI-V6.3.3.4870 Firebird 1.5
> >
> > From CygWin (http://cygwin.com) I can not restore a backup:
> >
> > jcalfee@RXS-CALFEE /cygdrive/c/Firebird
> > $ gbak -c reports.bak reports.fdb -user sysdba -pass masterkey
> > gbak: ERROR: unavailable database
> > gbak: ERROR: failed to create database reports.fdb
> > gbak: Exiting before completion due to errors
> >
> > However, from DOS this works fine:
> >
> > C:\Firebird>gbak -c reports.bak reports.fdb -user sysdba -pass
masterkey
> >
> > Is this a bug?

Hi James,

Is there any reason to do this anyway? After all you can install FB
natively on either Windows or *nix, and you can run gbak from either
connected to either type of server too. It just seems to me to be
another thing that could go wrong.

Adam