On 2011/01/13 05:14, crizz11 wrote:

>
> HI all, trying to migrate from firebird classic 1.5 32bit to 2.5 64bit
> on linux. Whenever I try to do anything on the new 2.5 64bit server
> with database files from the old 1.5 32 bit server i get the following
> error. " gbak: ERROR:file /ibdata/stock.fdb is not a valid database "
> This was an error i got when trying to backup the database that i
> simply copied from the 1.5 server to the 2.5 server. I have also tried
> copying a .fbk file from the 1.5 server over to the 2.5 server and got
> the same error when trying to resore. Is it possible to switch from
> 32bit 1.5 classic to 64 bit 2.5 classic or is there something i have
> to do to the database files first?
>

Do a transportable backup on the 1.5 and then a restore on 2.5

regards

Cornie


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