On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 9:10 AM, anchovies <anchovies00@...> wrote:

> Hi,
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> We have a db about 100GB in size with 5 tables about 50million rows each running FB 2.1.3.
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> While trying to do gbak backup it exits with the error below:
> gbak: ERROR:connection lost to database
> gbak: ERROR: gds_$receive failed
> gbak:Exiting before completion due to errors
> gbak: ERROR:Error writing data to the connection.

Did you look at the Firebird Server log? There's probably an error
reported there.

Best regards,

Ann

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