Subject Re: [firebird-support] Latest version of GBAK
Author Tony Christiansen
Oops

Sorry about the confusion.

I now see that the service is the GBAK Scheduler program (freeware)
utilising GBAK which seems to be causing me problems.

I will update it now I am googling more accurately.

Thanks for the replies

Tony

Helen Borrie wrote:
>
>
> At 08:29 PM 5/03/2009, you wrote:
> >Hi
> >
> >I am running GBAK as a service on a SBS2008 server. It seems to fail
> >fairly often (but restarts due to service configuration).
>
> Oh dear, oh dear! Gbak is not a service application. Remove it! Gbak is
> a client application that accesses the specified database through the
> client library and runs in its own transaction.
>
> >How do I tell what version I am using?
>
> gbak -z
>
> >What is the latest version and where can I get it?
>
> You need the *correct* version for the version of the server you are
> running, which should be installed in the same \bin\ directory where the
> server executable is (fbserver.exe or fb_inet_server.exe).
>
> >I use Firebird v2 on the server which is rock solid (so far)
>
> There are two series of Firebird 2: 2.0.x and 2.1.x. Make certain which
> series you are on.
>
> ./heLen
>