RB Smissaert wrote:

> Still having troubles restoring a 2.9 Gb .gbk file with FB 1.5 Classic.
>
> I can start the restore fine, but eventually I get the message out of disc
> space and I understand that this
>
> happens on a FAT32 drive then the restored .fdb file gets bigger than 4Gb.

Depends on the Windows version that created the filesystem. See here:

http://www.firebirdfaq.org/faq59

> "C:\Program Files\Firebird\Firebird_1_5\bin\gbak.exe" -c -se
> localhost:service_mgr I:\Firebird\s6.fbk localhost:I:\Firebird\s6.fdb 4g
> localhost:I:\Firebird\s6A.fdb 4g localhost:I:\Firebird\s6B.fdb -p 4096 -v
> -user xxx -password yyy

I have never tried myself, but this might help you:

http://www.firebirdfaq.org/faq146

HTH

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Milan Babuskov
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