Dear Friends,

Setup Is as Follows.

A Small LAN with i386 Based IBM server P4, 512 MB RAM, 30 GB Disk
Suse 8.2 Pro, FB 1.5 RC8, SMBA Server for NT emulation, 10 Win 98 Clients
Database Size about 290 MB, Running a Vital Banking C/S Application written
in Delphi 5 with IBO for data manipulation & IBX components for
Backup/Restore.

This is what happened.

The user, as a monthly routine advised by us, tried backup/restore cycle,
Which is
hardcoded in Program. Since partition where .gbk is usually created got out
of
disk space for some or the other reason, and a partial .gbk was created
without any
exception or error message. Since no exceptions or error messages Program
went
ahead and tried to restore the partial .gbk and corrupted the original
database.

Since there was tape backup of original gdb we have survived.

Can somebody guide me how shall I take precaution in the program itself
so that it will detect similar situation of partial backup for some or the
other reason and stop there itself before restoring such partial .gbk ?

Thanks in advance.

Best Regards

R. S. Patil