--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Helen Borrie <helebor@...> wrote:

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

Happily, gbak is installed.

> 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.)

Good to know. Thanks for the info!

> 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.

Not an issue, we're running on x86 Linux. The installs are the same in this case, as we're
just moving from a VM to a physical server. So the Registry doesn't exist, and all .conf
files are easily transportable if there are any differences. There likely aren't, but I'll check.

A bit of Googling found some documentation on gbak, so after a couple of tests, it looks
like I'm all set.

Thanks again for the help,

---Peter