At 05:55 AM 6/03/2007, you wrote:

>Excellent, thank you very much for the info. The fun part is that
>the vendor did not include
>nbackup in their Firebird re-package. Yay. ;)

Erm, that's a good thing. nbackup

a) is not for transporting databases

b) doesn't work with Firebird 1.5

Hopefully the vendor *has* supplied gbak, along with some kind of
user-friendly interface for running a backup....yes?

Nobody mentioned that there *are* other site-specific files you need
to take copies of and copy over the ones in the newly installed
server: firebird.conf, aliases.conf and security.fdb. (The latter
is a database so, again, you'll want to take a gbak backup of that
and restore on the new server if there are any doubts about alignment.)

You should also check with the vendor whether they have any .ini
files and/or Registry settings that their software might have
installed on the server.

./heLen