> 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?
>
>
>

Before you go too far, I would recommend a recreations and a datapump.
Alan