--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Milan Babuskov <milanb@...>
wrote:

>
> 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.

If I do it one-by-one will it still by within the same transaction
(snapshot)?

If not it will not help me.

Even so - FBExport is great for many things and has at lot of cool
features.

>
> > 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
>
> --
> Milan Babuskov
> http://www.flamerobin.org
>