Mark - thank you very much! I do want the backup file on the server so all is good there.
I have found that the spaces do cause an issue. Where I’m at right now is the following: gbak -b -user sysdba -password masterkey -service win2012server:service_mgr c:/~wrk/lumber.fdb /common/lumber_remote.fbk -v -y "/common/lumber_remote.log” My next task is to try an alias pointing to the path with spaces. Most of my installs are set up with the same folder structure, “c:\fb databases\…" Thanks again! Kevin > On Jan 3, 2020, at 8:28 AM, Mark Rotteveel [email protected] > [firebird-support] <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 02/01/2020 16:31, Kevin Stanton [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > [firebird-support] wrote: > > The error was: > > > > Gbak error: I/O error for file “c:\fbThe system cannot find file specified.” > > Gbak error: Error while trying to open file. > > Gbak error: The system cannot find the file specified. > > Try a path without a space in it, or define an alias and use that alias > to connect. > > Also, I think you should use > > gbak -b -user sysdba -password masterkey -service > win2012server:service_mgr "c:/fb databases/lumber/lumber.fdb" > "/common/lumber_remote.fbk" > > That is: > - remove win2012server from the database path, you already specified the > server in the `-service` > - use forward slash instead of backslash > > However, when you create the backup this way, it will create it on the > server. This doesn't seem to be what you want to do. > > AFAIK, Firebird 1.5 doesn't have streaming backup through the service > manager, so you can't make a local backup directly to the client. > > Mark > -- > Mark Rotteveel > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
