On Sep 28, 2010, at 8:19 AM, Kieran Kelleher wrote:

> Wow, this is definitely a strike against the Chuck-beloved FrontBase!
> 
> In MySQL, the dump is a text SQL file with table create statements, data 
> insert statements etc .....

So is a dump in FB.  Dave has himself a hold of a quick backup.



> it even puts conditional comments around features that MySQL version specific 
> so that those are ignored by old versions that cannot handle those features. 
> So essentially a typical (there are multiple ways to dump/backup btw) MySQL 
> dump is platform, Operating System, CPU brand/arch and MySQL version agnostic 
> ..... kind of important when dealing with BACKUPS I think ;-) ...... or even 
> moving your database to another server with different OS and hardware.
> 
> Regards, Kieran
> 
> 
> On Sep 28, 2010, at 10:39 AM, John Huss wrote:
> 
>> You have to restore it on exactly the same version of FrontBase that was 
>> used to back it up AND it must be the same architexture - if the backup was 
>> from 32-bit frontbase you cannot restore it with the 64-bit executable.
>> 
>> John
>> 
>> On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 9:13 AM, David Avendasora 
>> <webobje...@avendasora.com> wrote:
>> Things just get stranger and strangerer, apparently the backup was pulled 
>> from an Intel server, and the only thing that Google comes back with when 
>> searching on Frontbase and the "Wrong magic number - not a backup file" 
>> message is Flor's post I linked to below.
>> 
>> Dave
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