> No, a Firebird 2.1 server should be able to make a backup of a
> Firebird 1.5 database that can subsequently be restored by Firebird
> 2.1

In Borrie's release notes
(http://www.scribd.com/doc/5058/Firebird-SQL-version-20-Release-Notes)
she explicitly states:

<quote>
Make transportable gback backups of your existing
databases...<italic>before</italic> you uninstall the older Firebird
server...
</quote, pg 1>

Can anyone comment? Am I safe backing up a 1.5 DB with version 2?