m2data wrote:

>> Look at DBak - http://www.telesiscomputing.com You can filter out
> any object that you don't want to back up.
>
> I known of DBak, but its last update is back in 2005 and has not been
> testet agains FB2.x

Alternatively you can use FBExport and backup tables one-by-one. It only
exports data though and you'll have a separate backup file for each
table. But it has been tested to work fine with FB 2.1.

> 1) Use gbak -M to get metadata in to at file.
> 2) Export every table to seperate files
> 3) Export the blobdata from the table containing the images to
> seperate imagefiles but ONLY if the imagefile dosen't exists
> allready. Meaning that with 8000 record in the image table I get 8000
> files.

Well, looks like FBExport can do what you want for 1. and 2. and
although it supports blobs, 3. seems to use a custom algorithm, so you
probably wont use it (of course you can invoke it to export a single
blob to a single file, but you would need to create an application that
would check whether image files exists anyway).

HTH

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