Subject Re: [firebird-support] Nbackup
Author Adriano dos Santos Fernandes
Dmitry Yemanov escreveu:
> Branimir Trumbic wrote:
>> I want to use incremental backups as my database is growing (>2Gb), I
>> found that this is possible with nbackup tool (found in Firebird/bin
>> directory), but I have some questions:
>>
>> 1. nbackup does not support (or I don't know how to set) same database
>> connection string as gbak tool.
>> Basically nbackup works with this:
>>
>> nbackup -U SYSDBA -P masterkey -B 1 localhost:C:\DATA.FDB dump.nbk
>>
>> but it does not work when I have firebird on different port (e.g.
>> 9999), so this command does not work:
>>
>> nbackup -U SYSDBA -P masterkey -B 1 localhost/9999:C:\DATA.FDB dump.nbk
>
> Why do you need a localhost prefix? NBackup is expected to work fine
> without it, regardless of the TCP port of the FB server.
>
Does Linux SS has local protocol or local access is done via TCP? If the
later, there is really a problem with binding because nbackup need to
connect to the database.


Adriano