There is some open source libraries that you can integrate
with an app. So you can do an app that executes gbak (or
services api) and zip the contents in a diskette.

You can create a batch and use something like InfoZIP (which
is open source) to make the thing.
If you use delphi, look for the TurboPower components, they have
an compression library (they are opensource now). THere was a
DelZip component that used the library (dll) of InfoZip.

That is what I can remember to help your customers continue using
the magnetic media from hell (I hate diskettes).

Dan Cooperstock escreveu:

>
> My application is for use by small charities who often have old
> computers and little technical expertise. I have thousands of users.
> So, I can't insist on any particular hardware configuration. I also
> can't insist on other shareware such as WinZip being present.
>
> However, this does give me some good ideas that I think are worth
> following up.
>
> Thanks - Dan.
>
> --- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
> <mailto:firebird-support%40yahoogroups.com>, "Mercea Paul"
> <paul.mercea@...> wrote:
> >
> > Why not use a pendrive (usb stick)??? . 1 gb, 2gb are cheap now!
> >
> > Must be a floppy???
> >
> > Why don't you create a batch file for that?
> >
> > Make your back-up on hdd, user rar or zip to create archive to fit
> your
> > floppy and copy them on floppy.
> >
> > In this case to, for best practice, you should verify if data are ok
> on
> > floppy.
>
>