At 07:11 PM 7/10/2007, you wrote:

>All sorted now, and sorry if it wasted anybody's time.
>
>It was just that the .gdb file had data added since restored from .gbk so
>the new .fdb missed out on that.
>
>Are there any good free GUI apps to restore with the Firebird gbak? Doing
>this from the commandline is a bit of a hassle. I suppose it would
>be quite simple to write one myself in VB6 or VBA.

The gbak code is available through function calls to the Services
API. If you need to build it into your applications, ask on the
forum for the database access interface you're using.

Several GUI tools have backup and restore available. Ask on Firebird-tools....

^heLen