Subject Re: Restore crisis
Author rodbracher
Still waiting for the CD - but this has become a very real crisis.
It has happened at another site last night.

The gdb got checksum errors - so after doing a backup and restore we
get the same situation as below.

Has anyone EVER got this before ?

Rod

--- In ib-support@y..., "rodbracher" <rod@m...> wrote:
> I am having the CD with the GBK sent to me ( I was doing this over
PC
> Anywhere ) so I will come back tomorrow with more details.
> Thanks for those who have responded
>
> Rod
> --- In ib-support@y..., "Ann W. Harrison" <aharrison@i...> wrote:
> > At 10:39 AM 9/26/2002 +0000, rodbracher wrote:
> >
> > >After each table is restored - it reports how many records were
> > >restored - the figures are correct.
> > >
> > >But when I view the tables in IBConsole - they are all empty.
> >
> > Did the restore finish with a success message? What message did
> > it finish with? The behavior of gbak is to rollback all data
> > if it encounters an error. If that happened, the symptoms would
> > be just what you describe. The other way to get the same symptoms
> > would be to open the database before the restore had completed.
> > That one is transient - wait until gbak gives its success message
> > then look.
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Ann
> > www.ibphoenix.com
> > We have answers.