On 14.08.2017 at 15:51, Nick Upson nu@... [firebird-support] wrote:

> I'm looking at using nbackup but the file permissions on security2.fdb mean
> only firebird or root can do so, is that the way it is supposed to be?

Definitely. You wouldn't like any third party to access the password /
security database directly, would you?
On the other hand, in what way does it stop you from using nbackup? I
suppose what you actually need to do is to backup / restore a normal
database, not the system-wide security db.

regards
Tomasz