On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 6:52 AM, Maury Markowitz <mmarkowitz@...> wrote:

Now *that's* interesting, because this has been the most suggested method I have seen. In fact, I only learned about the nbackup method long after having done two moves "the other way", which was the recommended method from the vendor.

Gbak is a backup/restore program that produces an architecture agnostic backup file.  The backup file contains a logical representation of the format and contents of the database.  Nbackup is a fast physical backup that supports incremental backups.   Nbackup is not a database transport mechanism.  If you found documentation that suggests using Nbackup as a transport, the Firebird Documentation group should know about it, because neither the database file nor the delta is architecture independent.

Good luck,

Ann