--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "Martijn Tonies"
<m.tonies@...> wrote:

>
> Hello Dan,
>
> > It seems this bug (it can't handle filenames with spaces, when

you use

> > the ServiceManager) has been hanging around for a long time. Has

anyone

> > tried to fix it? It seems to me it ought not to be too hard.
>
> Are you sure?
>
> I'm using the Services API with filenames including spaces and it
> appears to work just fine.
>
> Martijn Tonies

There are quite a few posts about this. If you use your own code and
call the ServiceManager directly, it's fine. But if you do it from
GBAK, you get error messages, like:

My Command:

gbak -b -se localhost:service_mgr -user sysdba -pas mypwd
-y "C:\program files\donation2\backup.log"
"C:\Program Files\Donation2\data\donation4.db"
"c:\Program Files\donation\backup\donation4.db.gbk"

Output:

gbak: ERROR:I/O error for file "files\donation2\backup.log"
gbak: ERROR: Error while trying to open file
gbak: ERROR: The system cannot find the path specified.

gbak:Exiting before completion due to errors

All of the posts end up recommending that we use Service Manager
instead. And there seems to have been at least a related bug filed
about this in the Jira in 2004, but nothing done about it.