Mmmm

Thanks all for that - I have been away for a short while and did not expect to have started such a thread. I have in the meeantime established that moving to FB2.1 seems a good staging post then onto 2,5 as I note some character set issues.

Meanwhile Ann- what does "it's only going to get worse" mean - the db is quite well at the moment

Regards

Roger

--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "Ann W. Harrison" <aharrison@...> wrote:
>
> On 12/3/2010 7:05 AM, rogerpullen wrote:
> > All - we have a FB1.5 db Dialect 1 running on W2003. Size is about 10GB.
> >
> > I assume this db will run as-is under FB2.5 - the big question is backing up and restoring (and other tools like gfix) - given it is dialect 1 (it started out as an IB5.5!) will GBAK in FB2.5 respect and retain the dialect 1. I know it should be upgraded to dialect 3 but there are so many date issues we simply do not have enough time to pump into another db as it is in use nearly 24x7
> >
>
> Everything will work with your database - server and tools. You
> can even backup and restore the database under V2.5 to take advantage
> of improvements in the ODS.
>
> But you really ought to find the time to convert to Dialect 3 ...
> it's only going to get worse.
>
> Good luck,
>
> Ann
>