Re: [firebird-support] gbak error

2016-08-30 Thread 'Woody' woody-...@gt.rr.com [firebird-support]
Not sure it helps, but I once had my FB backup schedule service stop working after a server software update. It was a Windows server, though, so not sure it applies here. Just something else to think about. Woody (TMW) From: mailto:firebird-support@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, August 30,

Re: [firebird-support] gbak error

2016-08-30 Thread Nick Upson n...@telensa.com [firebird-support]
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

Re: [firebird-support] Slow Firebird performance in Azure with durable data disks (e.g., Premium Storage)

2016-08-30 Thread Alexey Kovyazin (ak) a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
Hi Antti, Try to lock database with nbackup and check the peformance with locked database - in this case all writes will go to delta file sequentially. If your assumption is true and Premium Storage does not work good with random writes, you will see less decrease of performance. Also, there

Re: [firebird-support] gbak error

2016-08-30 Thread Helen Borrie hele...@iinet.net.au [firebird-support]
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 >

[firebird-support] Slow Firebird performance in Azure with durable data disks (e.g., Premium Storage)

2016-08-30 Thread Antti Nivala antti.niv...@m-files.com [firebird-support]
Hi, We've experimented with the performance of Firebird in virtual machines in Microsoft's Azure cloud. With Azure VMs, any durable data needs to be placed in "data disks", and essentially that means network-connected storage that is inherently slower than e.g. local SSD disks. When testing

Re: [firebird-support] gbak error

2016-08-30 Thread Nick Upson n...@telensa.com [firebird-support]
it all seems ok, files have been created in other ways Nick Upson, Principal Operations Engineer, Telensa Ltd. Direct +44 (0) 1799 533252, Support Hotline +44 (0) 1799 399200 On 30 August 2016 at 19:26, 'Leyne, Sean' s...@broadviewsoftware.com [firebird-support]

RE: [firebird-support] gbak error

2016-08-30 Thread 'Leyne, Sean' s...@broadviewsoftware.com [firebird-support]
> 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

[firebird-support] Firebird Crash - version 2.5.6

2016-08-30 Thread Jardar Maatje jardar.maa...@nds.nortek.no [firebird-support]
Hi We are running firebird 2.5.6 and at uneven intervals the service is crashing with the following log "C:\Program Files\Firebird\Firebird_2_5\bin\fbserver.exe": terminated abnormally (4294967295) It typically happens at night, but not directly related to any scheduled task. It does run on a

Re: [firebird-support] Character sets and collations of columns

2016-08-30 Thread Stefan Heymann li...@stefanheymann.de [firebird-support]
Tomasz, > One of the legacy databases I happen to maintain has character sets and > collations messed up. [...] For a database that is messed up like this, I'd go the clean way and use a pump. That would also give you the opportunity to change it to Unicode (UTF-8) at the same time, which is a

Re: [firebird-support] deploy Windows Application to access Firebird database

2016-08-30 Thread Stefan Heymann li...@stefanheymann.de [firebird-support]
> Does it apply to remote servers also such as > www.myserver.com:/opt/database/fbdata.fdb > The release note README file in the embbeded zip says: > [...] You are mixing up access to a remote database (only fbclient.dll needed) and the Embedded Firebird server (fbembed.dll, renamed to