Nick Upson wrote: > the commandline used is > > gbak -V -CREATE 110831130601.fbk -user sysdba -pass genesis > /opt/unb/archive/tmp/110831130601.fdb
User/pass have no effect unless you give "localhost:" in front of connection string. Try: gbak -V -CREATE 110831130601.fbk -user sysdba -pass genesis localhost:/opt/unb/archive/tmp/110831130601.fdb Under which user account are you running gbak? -- Milan Babuskov ================================== The easiest way to import XML, CSV and textual files into Firebird: http://www.guacosoft.com/xmlwizard ==================================