Hi

I thought you could only run GBak (which IBOAdmin does) on a local
machine. i.e. it doesn't run over a network.

Rob Martin
Software Engineer

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Wild Software Ltd



Sergio Zoccante wrote:

> Hi Rob
> The problem is, perhaps, because the database path should be the path in
> the PC host, where phisically stays the database, and not the net path.
> E.g.: C:\data\sample.fdb and not F:\sample.fdb, if F maps C:\data in the
> server HD. And this also if the backup software is in a client PC.
> Bye
> Sergio
>
>> I hope this is an appropriate forum for this question. Please redirect
>> me if it is not.
>>
>> I've written a Delphi application to backup and restore a Firebird DB
>> using the IBOAdmin components. It works beautifully on a single PC
>> (which is the server, of course) but when I try to use a client to do
>> the backup, I get a variety of errors such as "Database file not
>> found" (even though I can connect to it using a TIB_Connection). Is
>> this a problem with the IBOBackupService settings or is it more
>> fundamental?
>>
>> If it is more fundamental is there an alternative to me writing a
>> wrapper for gbak?
>>
>> Thanks for all help and comments,
>>
>> Rob
>>
>>
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