Helen,

Thanks, but that's not it. I've done the restore on several different
boxes, with stupid names so and they can't possibly be being accessed
and all give the same problem. I can watch (-v) the restore and
thousands of records are going in to tables. They just won't come out
again. gfix -v -full on the original gdb comes back with no complaints -
no comments at all, actually. Not being able to get a working backup is
scary. Anything I haven't tried that springs to mind?



Helen Borrie wrote:

> At 11:20 AM 24/01/2004 +1100, you wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >We're having an unusual problem. We have a large-ish 3G+ gdb which
> >appears to back-up happily but when it is restored the tables are empty.
> >I've run gfix -v -n on the original and nothing was reported.
> >
> >Does anyone have any clues about why this might be happening or what we
> >should look for?
> >
> >Linux, FB1.0.3
>
> Best guess is that you are trying to access the database before the
> restore
> is finished - yes, you can do that and do I need to mention that this
> is a
> very hairy practice? Restore actually does a full rebuild of the
> database,
> starting with metadata and later adding the data.
>
> /hb
>
>
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