--- Helen Borrie wrote:

> 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

I also found out that it works without -se if you supply the
parameters in "backup_file - remote_db" order.

gbak -c -v c:\db\db.fbk servername:c:\db\db.fdb -user SYSDBA -pass *

Does this mean that GBAK is smart enough to use service automatically?

Regards,

Dave