that site seems to be down for me at the moment

--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Paul Vinkenoog <paul@...> wrote:
>
> 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
>