no, not a file name collision and plenty of disk space this just started happening, no change to installed s/w
Nick Upson, Principal Operations Engineer, Telensa Ltd. Direct +44 (0) 1799 533252, Support Hotline +44 (0) 1799 399200 On 30 August 2016 at 21:14, Helen Borrie hele...@iinet.net.au [firebird-support] <firebird-support@yahoogroups.com> wrote: > > > Hello Nick, > > > I'm running fb2.1 on centos5, recently a system has started > > throwing this error when asked to do a backup, the gbak parameters > > are unchanged, permissions all seem ok, any suggestions what I might > check > > > gbak: ERROR:Unexpected I/O error while writing to backup file > > gbak:Exiting before completion due to errors > > "gbak parameters are unchanged." Could be you already have a file in > that location with the same name. > > HB > > >