""Thomas Steinmaurer""

> Hi,
>
> When trying to backup the database with either the Services API
> or gbak.exe, the backup stops at a given point with:
>
> gbak: 4 records written
> gbak: writing index RDB$PRIMARY4
> gbak: writing data for table SEMESTER
> gbak: 4000 records written
> gbak: writing index RDB$PRIMARY101
> gbak: writing index RDB$FOREIGN102
> gbak: writing index RDB$FOREIGN103
> gbak: writing data for table HASPHOTO
> gbak: 586 records written
> gbak: writing index RDB$PRIMARY3
> gbak: writing data for table PHOTOS
> gbak: ERROR: message length error (encountered 548, expected 544)
> gbak: ERROR: gds_$receive failed
> gbak: Exiting before completion due to errors
>
> Does somebody know what can cause the above "message length error"
> message? Even Google doesn't seem to be helpful ;-).

I've probably encountered it, but like lots of error messages, I just read
that the DB is corrupt.

> I've tried various repair tasks (including the IBPhoenix paper)
> without success. The data is accessible and the database is very
> small (~ 3,6 MB), therefore recreating a new database and pumping
> the data might be not a problem here, though I would be interested
> in avoiding the above in the future.

When you do a gfix, what does it report?

> TIA for any help.

JAC