Hello Myles,


Do backup with the following switches:

gbak -b -g -v -ig ...

Regards,
Alexey Kovyazin
IBSurgeon

> We have a Firebird 1.5 Super Server database on Linux running that
> decided last week to stop successfully completing a backup with GBAK.
>
> After running for about an hour, it fails with the following error:
>
> gbak: ERROR: database file appears corrupt ()
> gbak: ERROR: wrong page type
> gbak: ERROR: page 12726 is of wrong type (expected 7, found 5)
> gbak: ERROR: gds_$receive failed
> gbak: Exiting before completion due to errors
>

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