Restoring a FrontBase database I have a FrontBase database that I am trying to restore. This is a database system I have no experience up until now so this may be a basic question. I am issuing the following command to restore

c:\usr&gt;FrontBase\bin\FrontBase.exe -console -create -restore=c:\usr\B_2017_03_08-20_36_14 MyDB


And get the error

2017-03-16 11:28:38 FrontBase Server - 8.2.8 64-bit on Windows NT/2000
2017-03-16 11:28:38 Cannot determine keys identity, Wrong magic number - not a backup file
2017-03-16 11:28:38 Failed to restore database from the backup


The backup was actually created on a Mac, I am not sure if the format is portable.

If anyone has experience with Frontbase I would love to hear from them, it doesn't seem to be a common DB.
Is the mac and Windows machines running same version of FrontBase? if not you have to export the database to file format and import it: 

On mac :

WRITE ALL OUTPUT(DIR = '&lt;path&gt;', TYPE = 'FrontBase',
CONTENT = TRUE);


On Windows:

script &lt;path&gt;/schema.sql;


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