Subject Re: [firebird-support] gbak restore suddenly stops working
Author John vd Waeter
Bob Murdoch wrote:
> I have multiple development databases that are backed-up and restored
> every night via scripts. This morning, I find that all of the
> databases were backed up successfully, but none of them restored.
> There were no changes to the scripts. The command in the script looks
> like this:
>
> e:\firebird\bin\gbak.exe -C -user sysdba -password masterkey -p 8192
> -o -v -y f:\ib\company\Logs\RestoreLog.txt
> f:\ib\company\backup\company.fdb.Bak
> f:\ib\company\RestoreTest\company.fdb
>
> I am stumped.
>

If you didn't change things, someone or something else did.

2 weeks ago there was someone who found out that another clientlib was
installed without him or her knowing...

Also: file privileges on databasefile.

hth!
John