hi,

is there any other tools that can restore the database file aside from gbak?
a more sophisticated tool that can fix that particular problem?

also, can you point me to any documentation that discusses the byte-per-byte
structure of the backup file so i can perform byte-level modification?

thanks in advance!

best regards,

yaten kou

----- Original Message -----
From: "Helen Borrie" <helebor@...>
To: <firebird-support@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 7:58 PM
Subject: Re: [firebird-support] problem in restoring database


>
> At 06:00 PM 28/02/2005 +0900, you wrote:
>
> >hi sir,
> >
> >is there a way for me to bypass that procedure so i can restore the
> >database?
> >i can't use the database because all the procedures and triggers have not
> >been
> >restored, only the tables, generators and domain were restored.
>
> Not if you tried to restore using gbak -r. This is something you should
> never do. The first thing gbak -r does is to destroy your existing
database.
>
> I hope you have a good file copy of the database somewhere.
>
> I fervently wish that gbak -r[eplace_database] would be replaced by gbak
> -d[estroy_database], as it is too easy for inattentive new users to
destroy
> databases by associating gbak -r with "restore" and thinking healthy
> thoughts about it.
>
> ./hb




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