At 03:50 AM 7/08/2007, you wrote:

>hi ,
>how is it possible to restore a remote database :
>gbak -c -v servername:c:\db\db.fbk c:\db\db.fdb -user SYSDBA -password
>masterkey
>gives me error : cannot open backup file servername:c:\db\db.fbk
>
>firebird version is 1.5.4

You need to use the service manager:

gbak -c -v -se servername:service_mgr c:\db\db.fbk c:\db\db.fdb
-user SYSDBA -password masterkey

./heLen