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Good luck!

Helen
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At 02:30 PM 11-12-00 -0800, you wrote:

>have a v5.6 interbase db
>xxx.gdb and when i do a backup
>the following message i have :
>gbak: 7 records written
>gbak: writing index RDB$PRIMARY24
>gbak: writing index DONES_PATIENTID
>gbak: writing index DONES_TIME
>gbak: writing index RDB$FOREIGN94
>gbak: writing data for table DONES
>gbak: ERROR: database file appears corrupt ()
>gbak: ERROR: wrong page type
>gbak: ERROR: page 28300 is of wrong type (expected 5, found 7)
>gbak: ERROR: gds_$receive failed
>gbak: Exiting before completion due to errors
>
>Backup exited unsuccessfully on Mon Dec 11 14:18:16 2000
>
>how do i save my data from the db please......
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