Helen,

It restored until a few days ago - the gdb was still over 3G then. It
had been running happily on Win32 and using the Linux 64bit filesystem
version when wierd things started happening with, near as I can tell,
some communications problems reported from an odbc driver. I think these
may somehow be due to a corrupt gdb.

I haven't tried restoring to 2 files. Do you really think it might help?
3G doesn't really strike me as a 'magic number', not like 2G or maybe
ever 4G.

Thanks

Helen Borrie wrote:

> 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
>