Thank you Helen, I had a disk crash so I was absorbed restoring ..
gbak -c d:\vas_db\/VAS.bak localhost:d:\vas_db\VAS.fdb -user sysdba -password yourpwd your proposal seems to work. the restore operation is running now for some minutes. However I get very many (some thousand ??) messages of the form: gbak: do not recognize table attribute 0 -- continuing does this point to a serious problem or can I safely ignore it? thanks again robert
