At 07:54 PM 5/11/2007, you wrote:

>Hi
>
>> Could it be the (os) user that is trying to run nbackup isn't a
>member of the firebird group?
>>
>> Or that it's not going to let you output the nbk file to the
>firebird /bin/ directory?
>
>To be sure, I just added root to the firebird group and it didn't
>change anyting.

The root user would not encounter permissions problems so that area is eliminated.

Do you already have a libfbembed.so instance connected to this database when you try to run nbackup?

./heLen