At 06:25 PM 18/05/2006, you wrote:

>I have a problem restoring a firebird backup into a databasefile again.
>
>I started with
>
>"c:\program files\firebird\firebird_1_5\bin\gbak.exe" -c
>T:\ODAS\ODAS.fbk c:\ODAS\ODAS_restored.fdb -user SYSDBA -password
>masterkey
>
>During the restoreprocess (restored databasefile is already some GB
>big), I receive the following message:
>
>Done with volume #1, "c:\ODAS\ODAS.fbk"
>Press return to reopen that file or type a new name followed by return
>to open a different file.
>Name:
>Error: Backup incomplete

Did you make the backup, or someone else? Are you sure there is only
one backup file?

>The backupfile is approx 8GB big (the original FDB is 18GB). The
>backupfile is stored on a networkdrive T:\ where a Sambafileserver on
>debian is behind.

Do you know whether the backup is being written to a partition that
limits the size of files, such as ext2? If that is the case, then
the backup would not have completed if multiple backup files had not
been specified.

>I tested also a smaller database file (backup and restore) and this
>works out without problems.

Out of curiosity, what is the size of that backup file?

./heLen