At 03:11 PM 18/02/2008, you wrote:

>Is there a way to use IB Objects to backup a Firebird database using
>Firebird's backup mechanism?

IBO is database access. What you are after is service components (wrappers for the Services API). There is an IBO version of these components, in a package called IBOAdmin, by Lorenzo Mengoni. You want TIBOBackupService.

Link through to the download from http://www.ibobjects.com/ibocontributed.html

Helen