2011/1/14 crizz11 <crizz11@...>

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> ok thanks for that syntax help. I have checked and i'm pretty sure our charset is set to NONE as this is what is indicated in my connection to the database in IBexpert. i tried your example command replacing -fix_fss_metadata UTF8 with -fix_fss_metadata NONE
> but looks like supplying NONE cuts the whole -fix switch out of the command
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you have to know what kind of wrong charset you put in your db
if you managed your database with Ibexpert under windows, certainly
you putted win12xxx
so try for example :
gbak -c -FIX_FSS_METADATA WIN1252 ....