Alexander and Rob:

You are right! I was confused. I tried restoring the fbk file with
TIBRestoreService and it works.

Thank you very much.

Gustavo

----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert martin" <rob@...>
To: <firebird-support@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 11:43 PM
Subject: Re: [firebird-support] Re: TIBBackupService and FireBird 2.0


> Hi
>
> You don't connect to backups (.fbk files). A backup is a compacted,
> transportable version of the database. To access the data stored in a
> backup you need to restore the backup using gbak -r. This creates a
> 'new' database with the structure and data stored in your backup.
>
> Hope that clarifies things.
>
> Rob Martin
> Software Engineer
>
> phone +64 03 377 0495
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>
> Wild Software Ltd
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>
>
> gstv_m wrote:
>> Yes, I get the error message when I try to connect to the fbk file.
>>
>> I try to connect in two ways (to the fbk file):
>>
>> 1. I rename the file changing its extension to fdb and try to open it
>> using IB_SQL.EXE.
>>
>> 2. I rename the file changing its extension to fdb and try to open it
>> using Delphi, with a TIBDataBase component using the same code I
>> always use to open the original database.
>>
>> In both cases I get the error "... is not a valid database".
>>
>>
>>
>> --- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Alexandre Benson Smith
>> <iblist@...> wrote:
>>
>>> Gustavo wrote:
>>>
>>>> Till a few months ago I used FireBird 1.5 and this worked fine.
>>>>
>> But since I installed FireBird 2.0 this doesn´t work anymore. When
>> this code executes, I don´t get any error, and it generates a .fbk
>> file. But when I try to connect to it I get a message saying "... is
>> not a valid database".
>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> What did you mean by "when I try to connect to it I get a message
>>>
>> saying
>>
>>> "... is not a valid database"" ?
>>>
>>> When you try to connect to the fbk file ???
>>>
>>>
>>>> Gustavo
>>>>
>>>>
>>> see you !
>>>
>>> --
>>> Alexandre Benson Smith
>>> Development
>>> THOR Software e Comercial Ltda
>>> Santo Andre - Sao Paulo - Brazil
>>> www.thorsoftware.com.br
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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