Thanks Lester, it's a good idea, I tried it and almost work, but I got an error message in the restore phase of "Invalid request BLR, BLR syntax error: expected TABLE..." which aborts the process. I will investigate...

--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Lester Caine <lester@...> wrote:
>
> lmmolinero wrote:
> > Does anyone know how to convert a database version 2 to old version 1.5?
> > I tried to backup in Firebird 2 and then restore in Firebird 1.5, but I got the error message Expected backup version 1, 2 or 3. Found 7.
>
> Use the copy of gbak from 1.5 to back up the fb2 database. I keep a gbak15 in my
> fb2 setup just in case I need to drop stuff back.
>
> This backwards compatibility path is broken in Fb2.5 so it may be lost in the
> future, which is something of a potential problem.
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