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The network protocol in use is TCP. The -replace option on the restore process will overwrite the database name specified - as an alias or as a full path - if it exists and will create it anew if it doesn't. Sign up using Facebook. This means that you must make sure you prevent your backup files from falling into the wrong hands because there is nothing then to stop unauthorised people from seeing your data by the simple process of restoring your backups onto their server. A side effect of this was that everything that was read from data and meta data became subject to "well-formedness" checks. This documentation is licensed under choose your favorite:

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This switch puts a commit after each table. Improving the question-asking experience.

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This switch is similar to the -i[nactive] switch above, except, it disabled all check constraints in the restored database. This ability to pipe standard output of one process to the standard input of another, is how you can avoid creating an intermediate dump file.

Database firebir are a new feature in Firebird 2. This assumes that there is a way for gbak to determine the username and password to be used - either as command line parameters or via defined environment variables.

Databases gbao all single file databases.

There is no need to shut firebirrd the database during a GBAK backup. The security database resides in the Firebird directory. Note I use isql in the above examples as gstat -h seems to get confused about how many shadows there are on a database. Normally, gbak will compress the output file.

Backup & Restore Recipes

Do NOT restore over a database that is in use! When running gbakif the first filename is a database fiirebird, or database alias then gbak will default to taking a backup of the database in transportable format. The example above backs up the employee database, on the tux server, "remotely" using the service manager.

Restoring the Security Database It is not possible to restore the security database while Firebird is running. Useful for restoring a backup, containing inconsistent data. Unicorn Vbak Zoo 9: This is not the case if the o[verwrite] option is also used.

GBAK — Firebird Backup and Restore

Non-transportable format use only when you know you will restore on same platform and database version. Post as a guest Name. Warning The log file must not exist. When you restore a database, the Firebirr is not recreated: The backup will be written to the remote server, in other words, the backup file will be created on the tuxrep server and not on the tux one.

Only a SYSDBA or the owner of a database can take a backup of the database, however, any authenticated user can restore a database backup using the -c[reate] switch. You will have to specify the -C option for restore.

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So you can suppress any unwanted behaviour for the connection that GBAK needs to establish for the database. The usual extension for the backup file is.

The restore should be carried out using gbak from the newer version of Firebird. It has been deprecated. This version of the command will exit with a error code of firebkrd. Restores over an existing database. Sign up using Email and Password.

The example above prevents any new transaction from being started which prevents new queries being executed or new sessions connecting to the database. If a database is being overwritten then this setting will overwrite the previous setting for the cache size.