thanks for the quick replies. the .fbk file is in a folder without a .gdb file, so there's no issue with "create" "overwrite"
the fbk file is 7.3 gigs. there's 151 gigs free it's win7 64 bit. that drive is ntfs. thanks kelly --- In [email protected], Helen Borrie <helebor@...> wrote: > > 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 >
