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See if nbackup documentation needs additional information on how it looks up aliases

Open mrotteveel opened this issue 10 months ago • 1 comments

See also https://github.com/FirebirdSQL/firebird/issues/8441

mrotteveel avatar Feb 19 '25 09:02 mrotteveel

Thanks for opening the ticket. I think it would be useful to add the following information to the documentation:

  1. the way nbackup interprets aliases, i.e. it must be in the fb server folder if we want to use aliases
  2. service_mgr -action_nbak does not have to be in the fb server folder if want to use aliases
  3. nbackup.exe has the option to send to stdout, service_mgr -action_nbak does not

These are specifically things that I did not find (or not understand) directly in the documentation, and it is not easy to find on internet either.

topcodesoft avatar Feb 19 '25 09:02 topcodesoft