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FBCopy
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Tool for copying data between
Firebird databases
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What does it do?
With FBCopy, you can easily copy
data between Firebird tables and databases. FBCopy is a command-line tool, so
you can use it inside batch scripts, cron jobs, etc. Currently,
Linux and Windows versions are available, but I hope it can be built
with any compiler that can build IBPP library.
Why?
I was trying to copy data from one
Firebird database to another.
There are a lot of nice GUI tools that do it, but they all require thay
you have fast access to database. Both databases I had were on remote server, and all I had was
console access via ssh. Databases were too big to copy them to my
machine, pump the data, and copy back. So I had to pump on the server.
There were no tools for this, so I decided to write one.
Features
- Automatically loads all tables in
both databases and compares their fields
- Uses Foreign Keys and Check constraints
to determine the correct order of tables
- It can create ALTER TABLE and
CREATE TABLE scripts needed to update the destination database if
desired
- It generates a simple textual
definition file with list of tables, which you can edit to select only
the tables you really need
- You can manually edit definition
file if you wish to copy from views or stored procedures
- For each table, you can add WHERE
clause
- You can do it all as single atomic
transaction or one transaction per table
- Optional HTML output of differences for easier
overview
- Works on Windows and Linux
Restrictions
This tool uses IBPP library
for database access. It supports Firebird 1.0, 1.5 and InterBase 6
databases. It should also work with InterBase 6.5 and 7,
but nobody has confirmed it yet. If it works for you, please let me
know. As IBPP project grows, I hope to support all database engines
they do.
ARRAY datatype is not supported yet. If you need it, please let me know.
Dialect 1 is not supported at this time, only Dialect 3.
Licence
FBCopy is Free Software, released
under Mozilla Public licence,
version 1.0
Links
- Download page. The .tgz
package contains Windows and Linux binaries and source code.
- Project page
- On-line manual
Copyright
� Milan Babu�kov 2005. (e-mail)
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