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Firebird minimum server installation

I have installed Firebird server from the zip kit using instsvc.exe. The work's done well with the inno setup Exec function.

instsvc install -auto -name 'FireBird2_5'

My question is what are the minimum files necessary to install Firebird server. The installer is too slow due to unnecessary files, I found this link and I'm looking for something similar.

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Mark Rotteveel
Mark Rotteveel

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The total size of Firebird 2.5.8 is 230 files and +/- 30MB unzipped, I doubt this would really be a problem, but if you really want to minimize things, you can remove the following.

Using Firebird-2.5.8.27089-0_x64.zip as the basis, you can get rid of the following files or folders because they are just examples and documentation, or files for specific purposes (if you know you need them, don't delete them):

  • doc
  • examples
  • help
  • include
  • lib
  • misc
  • system32
  • udf (most have been replaced by built-in functions anyway)
  • Readme.txt

In theory you can remove the intl folder, but that will severely limit character set support in Firebird which can cause a lot of problems, so I'd advise against that.

If I'm not mistaken it should also be possible to remove plugin\fbtrace.dll and fbtrace.conf, but you may want to double check that.

From the bin folder, you can get rid of the following files:

  • fbguard.exe (make sure you don't enable use of Firebird Guardian using instsvc)
  • gdef.exe (tool for deprecated GDL DDL language)
  • gpre.exe (preprocessor for compiling embedded SQL, unlikely you need this)
  • gsplit.exe (tool for splitting backup files)
  • install_classic.bat
  • install_super.bat
  • install_superclassic.bat
  • qli.exe (tool for a deprecated query language)
  • uninstall.bat

If you don't need the administrative tools (but this might not be a good idea because management, and fixing or diagnosing database problems gets harder), you can also remove from bin:

  • fb_lock_print.exe
  • fbsvmgr.exe
  • fbtracemgr.exe
  • gbak.exe
  • gfix.exe
  • gsec.exe
  • gstat.exe
  • isql.exe
  • nbackup.exe

In theory you could also get rid of fb_inet_server.exe or fbserver.exe, depending on whether you use Classic, SuperServer or SuperClassic. Classic and SuperClassic use fb_inet_server.exe and SuperServer fbserver.exe; you can delete the other.

The other files are either technically necessary or legally necessary (the license notices).

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