At 05:31 PM 24/01/2004 +1100, you wrote:

>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?

Did it used to restore OK when it was smaller?

Using a filesystem that doesn't support a read/write file > 2 Gb?

Have you tried restoring it to two files instead of one?

/heLen