Does the error happen on file creation or after some data has been written?
> On Aug 30, 2016, at 4:36 PM, Nick Upson n...@telensa.com [firebird-support] > <firebird-support@yahoogroups.com> wrote: > > > > 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 > > > >