--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Rodrigo Gonçalves
<rglistas@f...> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> in one of our clients (he was using Interbase 6) there was a

database

> corruption which made the database "turn back" to the state it was

three

> days ago - records created, excluded, changed during the three days

just

> disappeared.
>
> The database itself is working normally, no problems to access,

delete

> ou insert data.
>
> But when we run gfix, there is a big quantity of corrupted

registries in

> one of the main tables, which holds patients records. After a
> backup/restore, the corruptions are gone but the data is from three

days

> ago, as I stated earlier.

Rogrigo, this is typical IB6 corruption caused by different
connection strings on different clients - server don't understand this
is the same database. It was fixed in FB even before 1.0 release.

> Losing part of the data is understandable, but all data including

from

> tables not being changed at the problem's moment is strange, very

strange...

This 'moment' had duration for 3 days. Nothing strange for this old
horse IB6.

Best regards,
Alexander.