Falko,

Excuse-me, I have mispelled the program to install the client !
it's instclient , instsvc is for the firebird service.
so to install in system32
instclient i g
and to query which gds32 version
instclient q g
and you get :
Installed GDS32.DLL version : 6.3.4.4910 (shared DLL count 2)
for fbclient version
instclient q f
Installed FBCLIENT.DLL version : 1.5.4.4910 (shared DLL count 1)

Regards

Alexandre

>
> Falko,
>
> I have migrated several ib56 databases to firebird 1.5.
>
> Firebird reads ODS 9 format (ib56 database internal format) but its
> really recommended to do a backup/restore with Firebird just to use
> the native ODS 10.1 format and to benefit from optimizations

(index,

> etc..)
>
> For your client application, I you don't install IB56, just make

sure

> you use the right client dll :
> - if you can't change gds32.dll to fbclient.dll, just rename old
> gds32.dll in system32 (interbase 5.6) and install gds32.dll
> with "instsvc i g" from firebird\bin (you have the option in the
> setup)
> - or use fbclient.dll or gds32.dll (firebird version) in your app
> directory.
>
> You can verify with "instsvc q g" which version is active.
>
>
> Alexandre
>
> >
> > Falko,
> >
> > > but what if the old server isnt present any more and we have to
> > > upgrade old databases?
> > > the background is: our customers get a application update with
> > > firebird 1.5 included. so interbase will be uninstalled.
> >
> > Actually, it is possible for you to construct a Firebird install
> which
> > would not require that IB be uninstalled. You can have Firebird
> use a
> > different set of TCP ports from IB.
> >
> > Thus you could have both engines co-existing.
> >
> > > in our tests the interbase databases seem to be ok after
> > > a backup/restore with firebird!?
> > > So: is it really neccessary to backup with ib5.6?
> > > What can go wrong if we backup interbase-databases with

firebird?

> >
> > It has been 6 years since I used IB, and I never tried to access

a

> 5.6
> > database from FB, so I can't comment.
> >
> > I would recommend that you NOT uninstall IB and that you create a
> > "migration tool" to move the IB databases to FB, rather then

depend

> on
> > FB being able to correctly backup a 5.6 database.
> >
> > Further, I would also STRONGLY recommend that you use different
> database
> > names (or at least the .fdb extension) and NOT delete the

original

> IB
> > databases (compress them if required). You never know when you
> _might_
> > need to go back to the original databases.
> >
> >
> > Sean
> >
>