At 12:18 PM 2/06/2006, you wrote:

>Hi
>
>Just switched SS to classic and am having trouble doing a GBak from the
>command prompt using the following
>
>gbak -B c:\c.fdb c:\c.fbk -USER SYSDBA -PAS masterkey
>
>I think this is what I usually do with SS why is it not working?

Because you can't connect to databases under Classic using local
connect. Read the Fb 1.5.3 release notes!

You have to do a remote backup:

Try
gbak -B -se localhost:service_mgr c:\c.fdb c:\c.fbk -USER SYSDBA -PAS masterkey

./heLen

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