You need to call the method ShellExecute to run external applications. you can also pass parameters with ShellExecute to the .exe you are calling
Example: ShellExecute(Application.Handle,'open',vApplication,vParameter,'',SW_HIDE); vApplication is the full path of the application I'm calling, in my example let's say C:\myFolder\myApplication.exe, and vParameter is the Parameter I want to pass to this application, let's say in this case 'P'. you can read the ShellExecute help for more info. Note that vApplication and vParameter are of type PCHAR. To convert a string to PCHAR you can use the following statements GetMem(vApplication,Length(vFilename)+1); // vFilename being the full file path of type String StrPCopy(vApplication,PChar(vFilename)); Hope it helps, you might also want to ask this in the Firebird group on exact directions how and when to backup and restore your FDB. Hope this helps Vahan -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of soonhuat ong Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2005 8:47 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [delphi-en] Backup and Restore The following is what i've found from the manual : backup database ---------------- echo backup Database... >> %BATLOGFILE% gbak -B -t -user SYSDBA -pass masterkey d:\newua\ua.gdb d:\newua\ua.bkp 2> errout.tmp echo 1> nul 2> empty.tmp echo N 1> N_CR.tmp comp errout.tmp empty.tmp 1> nul 2> nul < N_CR.tmp if errorlevel 1 GOTO NOT_BACKEDUP echo backup ua ok >> %BATLOGFILE% restore database --------------- echo restore Database... >> %BATLOGFILE% gbak -R -user SYSDBA -pass masterkey -c -p 8192 d:\newua\ua.bkp d:\newua\ua.gdb 2> errout.tmp echo 1> nul 2> empty.tmp echo N 1> N_CR.tmp comp errout.tmp empty.tmp 1> nul 2> nul < N_CR.tmp if errorlevel 1 GOTO NOT_RESTORED echo restore train ok >> %BATLOGFILE% But how am i goin to pass the parameter from my application, anyone ? Vahan Yoghoudjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Soonhuat... Firebird has its own backup and restore mechanism, you should probably read the firebird manual on how to use those commands and call them from your application with the necessary parameters. Vahan -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of soonhuat ong Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2005 3:24 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [delphi-en] Backup and Restore Hi all, I want to perform "backup and restore" function in my application after button click, any idea where should i start ? and how to do this. For your information, i'm using Firebird. Thanks in advance. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! 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