>After abanoning gbak I went for a db script generated from flamerobin.
>It halted 100 times, mainly because of (constraint-) trigger and not NONE
>characters. After exclusion and editing it ran all the way w/o errors, but
>when commited the db was still empty of metadata (!).
>
>I then tried 'commit after each table' and I got domains and procedures in,
>but coming to the tables it wouldnt go any further, I think dependencies kicked in.

You said you also had Database Workbench. Have you tried connecting through DBW to your database, right clicking 'Schema' and choose Extract DDL? It works fine for me, but then we don't use very complex dependencies...

HTH,
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