Backing Up Your Database

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Backing Up your Database

Before you begin, create a subdirectory called backups. If you are using the recommended directory path for this tutorial, your backups would be in C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Embarcadero\InterBase\gds_db\backups.

1. If it is not already open, open IBConsole by choosing it from the InterBase folder on the Start menu.
2. Log in as TUTOR to the server where your TUTORIAL database is located. (See InterBase Quick Start: Part I - Connect to a Server from IBConsole if you have forgotten how to do this.)
3. Right-click the Tutorial database and choose Backup/Restore > Backup to display the Database Backup dialog.

   

4. In the Alias field enter Tutorial

   By convention, backups have a .gbk extent, but it is not required. From the Verbose Output, select To Screen from the drop-down list in order to see a detailed description of what InterBase does when it backs up a database.

5. Browse to the location of your database backups (C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Embarcadero\Interbase\gds_db\backups)and enter tutorial1.gbk.
6. Click Save and then click OK. The backup actions are recorded in the Database Backup dialog. You also get a message that “Database backup completed.”

   

7. The database backup file (tutorial1gbk) has been created in the following folder:

 C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Embarcadero\InterBase\gds_db\backups

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• Part III Populating the Database