Johannes Pretorius wrote:

> Cant do meta data backup and restore.
> Get the error
>
> gbak :ERROR : string truncated
> gbak : Exiting before completion due to errors
>
> BEFORE that I also get
>
> gbak : do not recognize table attribute 18 -- continuing
>
> Any help will be appreacited

You need s tool that will extract the DML as a script!
I use IBOConsole but I don't know if it will talk to IB7.5 :(

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