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Gelein,
Thanks for previous help. I've installed #274 and connected to IB 7.5
Desktop and IB 2007 Developer on an XP workstation. Some feedback here
on just the Backup features.

Input fields are not entirely intuitive. So I view the help. I guess
this is the help that came with #274, since I installed to it's own
directory as suggested. I would like to see F1 on the Backup form
display IBConsole Help, but that is inactive. The "?" displays help,
although I would expect that to display focussed help on just the field
requested.

Anyway, the backup form displays my host and server in the sub-title
bar. "Local Server - gds_db" or "Local Server - ib2007svr". The
Database box contains only Alias, which is populated with the one
database I have in each server. Good. The Help is different, showing
two entries, Server and Alias, under Database, which is unlike the form.

Now that I have entered the Server and Database I want to back up,
there is still a lot more file information to enter - really too much:
a Server, an Alias and Filenames (with pages).
The Server pulldown is populated with my two IB Servers, fully
qualified, as host - alias. I'm thinking my backup file is going to be
a system file - Windows in this case (eg C:\Temp\mydb.gbk). Can I
really backup to a different server than the one where my database is
running? That is displayed above. OK, so I leave it alone as the same
Server shown in the sub-title bar.

Alias, we have so many Aliases in IB now, but the Help file doesn't
help, it just says the information is stored with this alias. Is this a
unique alias for this backup? An entry is required here. So I put the
Database Alias entered above.

OK Filename. This is the only entry I really expected to need in this
entire "Backup Files" section.  I entered one file as "C:\Temp\mydb"
with no Size. I'm not sure "Pages" makes any sense here or how one
would enter it.

So, what were the results? After a bit of trial and error, I created a
backup from the database in my IB7.5 server. I thought the application
would add the gbk file suffix, but it doesn't, so I have a backup file
with no suffix. But it created a file.

The IB2007 server was not as successful. I believe it knew what it
wanted to do, and it actually began. It created the empty file to
start, but then failed. This is a different server (on this same
desktop) and a different database, so errors may be elsewhere - in fact
I believe they are. But I wanted to provide the feedback above
regarding your backup form and the online help.

Just a little additional information. This recent upgrade to IB2007
from IB7.5 has run off the road many times. But at this point I have it
running, I have converted a large database, and that application works
generally well. But that has a backup feature in the application that
also failed with little information. So I have been trying the backup
here. I hope you will be able to simplify your form.

-- 
Patrick Moloney