On 26 March 2011 02:29, Norman Dunbar <Norman@...> wrote:

>
>
> Hi Huan,
>
> ok, I've created a new Linux Mint 10 VM in VirtualBox, and installed
> Firebird 2.1 classic.
>

Thanks Norman for going through all this. Much appreciated.

>
> The following command works perfectly and creates a backup:
>
> gbak -svc /path/to/database.fdb /path/to/backup/database.fbk
>
> I have no idea what's going on here! :-(
>
> The file looks to be a database dump, and if I try and restore it to a
> new database with the command:
>
> gbak -svc -create /path/to/backup/database.fbk ./norman.fdb
>
> then it works! The file created (norman.fdb) can be opened as a database.
>

Good to know you can reproduce this and it's not just me.

>
> Spooky!
>

I'm really confused as well!

>
> Cheers,
> Norman.
>
> PS. I much prefer superserver myself and OpenSuse, Mint (Ubuntu/Debian?)
> seems to make life hard in that instead of "gbak" they have a link from
> gbak to something called wrapper that executes gbak.real. Why I wonder?
>

We use classic because of the SMP support and that each connection is
independent.

Thanks
Huan


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