At 10:32 PM 5/11/2007, you wrote:

>> 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?
>
>No.
>The only process accessing these files is firebird super-server LI-
>V2.0.3.12981.

OK, next idea :-) Are you sure the database is ODS version 11 ? (gstat -h will tell you)

./heLen