Firebird Backup & Restore Utility

Norman Dunbar

1 may 2013 - Document version 1.11

Table of Contents

Introduction
Command-line Options
Backup Mode
Restore Mode
Security Of Backups
Backup & Restore Recipes
Gbak Caveats
A. Document history
B. License notice

Introduction

Gbak is one of the database backup and restore utilities supplied with Firebird. In Firebird 1.5 it is the only supplied utility of this kind while Firebird 2.x also has the nbackup utility which is described in another document.

In this manual, we will discuss:

Command-line options for gbak.
gbak commands and their parameters.
Running gbak in backup or restore modes.
Some caveats, gotchas and foibles of gbak.