Subject Re: [firebird-support] convert backup from 2.1 to 2.0
Author Eugen Stoianovici
Mark Rotteveel wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I'm having some trouble updating a database. My development machine has
>> firebird 2.1 installed and the production server has 2.0.
>> I've created a backup on the server, brought it to my development
>> machine, performed the updates and sent a backup to the server. When
>> using gbak to restore this backup i get:
>>
>> gbak: ERROR:Expected backup version 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, or 7. Found 8
>>
>> Is there anyway i could get the backup in the correct version for the
>> server on my development machine?
>>
>
> Use a 2.0 gbak against your 2.1 development server to create the backup.
>
> Mark
>

Thank you, it worked like a charm :)

Eugen