Gustavo,

> 2. Is there a way, using gbak, to "get" the verbose into my Delphi
> application to show the user the backup progress?

see the recent (December) thread "Capture the output of GBAK console process and display on your GUI application" in
this same forum where I have posted the Delphi code to do what you are seraching for.

Regards

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Salvatore