Subject Re: Mysterious page type errors
Author Aage Johansen
robbi2002de wrote:
> we have errors in a Firebird V1 database: pages of wrong page type.
> After gfix -mend, backup and restore we shortly again received error
> messages like "ISC blah, database is corrupt", "ISC blah, wrong page
> type (should 5 is 0)" in our Delphi 6 application with IBObjects 4.
> I'm sure, that these errors only can result from the server, not from
> the client application or the TCP network.
> Theses errors are NOT reproduceable, sometimes a query brings a
> result set, sometimes we get the page errors for the same query.
> Is it possible, that backup and restore and a second backup and
> restore are not able to repair all corrupt pages?
> What can we do against these pending danger of corrupt pagetypes?
> ...


Could there possibly be faulty hardware that causes corruption? (Pure
speculation, of course).
Try to move the db to another server (or some other disk).



Regards,
Aage J.