Nbackup taking backup from a remote alias

Question

Is it possible to take a backup from a remote machine to local machine using nbackup? My database is in a server and I need to take the backup to my local PC using NBackup.

When I tried, it is not allowing to give the backup path to a local machine.

Answer 1

Nbackup itself can only back up local databases. However, in Firebird 2.5 and above its backup and restore tasks can also be performed remotely through the Services Manager.

You can use gbak to backup a remote database to local machine.

How to backup the remote database to a local hard disk?

Here's the GBAK command:

gbak -b -v 192.168.0.20:/dbases/mydb.fdb C:\mybackup.fbk -user SYSDBA -pass 123456