Subject Re: [ib-support] --* Please Help*--- Database corruption and cannot backup & restore
Author Helen Borrie
At 01:20 PM 07-08-01 +0200, you wrote:
>At 20:12 2001-08-07 +1000, you wrote:
> >Louis,
> >I hope you get lots of ideas about the CAUSE from here...here are two
> >possiblities to start with:
> >
> >
> >Is somebody connecting to the database with a missing backslash following
> >the drive designator? e.g. SERVERNAME:c:databases\mydb.gdb. If you have
> >one or more users connected with the correct string and one or more
> >connected with the bad string, your d
> >atabase will be corrupted.
>
>One of our guys connected from Marathon using UNC instead of
>server:drive:\path\db.gdb. As far as i can remember, this is part of the
>problem...??

It shouldn't be, unless he connected with \\servername\drive:path\db.gdb.

-- helen

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