crizz11 wrote:

> ok if i try to do a restore of the fbk taken from the 1.5 server on the 2.5 64bit server with the following command
> gbak -r -p 8192 -user sysdba -password pass /opt/firebird/fbbackup/stock.fbk /ibdata/stock.fdb
>
> The error i get is
> gbak: ERROR:Malformed string
> gbak:Invalid metadata detected. Use -FIX_FSS_METADATA option.

Ah, that's a known issue. Please read instructions here:

http://www.firebirdsql.org/rlsnotesh/rlsnotes25.html#rnfb25-compat-metadata


Good luck,
Paul Vinkenoog