At 08:10 PM 15/05/2012, Norman Dunbar wrote: >> so, i: >> gbak -c aaa.fbk aaa.gdb >> >> i have move the fbk file into another folder and the aaa.gdb file doesn't >> exist there. >> but i can't get it to "create" the GDB? > >Do you, by any chance, have an entry in aliases.conf for "aaa.gdb"? If >so, you are most likely overwriting the original database. Although, if >I remember correctly, that depends on your version of Firebird.
No, gbak -c would never overwrite a database, in any version of Firebird. It would simply refuse to create the new database if it already exists. >> error: size specification either missing or incorrect for file aaa.gdb >Are you creating, or attempting to, a bigger than 4 GB database on a >FAT32 fie system? I suspect this might be the case, too. On FAT32, if the database would be larger than 4 GB, gbak would look for primary and secondary file specifications in the gbak -c command and, in this example, find them missing. Another possibility is that the destination space might be too small to accommodate the database. ./heLen
