Subject Re: [firebird-support] database file appears corrupt
Author Helen Borrie
At 11:50 AM 4/05/2005 +0000, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I seem to have a corrupt gdb file.
>Whenever my app tries to access the file I receive the error:
>
>Database file appears corrupt ()
>Bad Checksum
>Checksum error on database page 30472
>
>I have tried using gfix (with and without the -ignore switch) but
>receive a similar error:
>
>database file appears corrupt()
>-wrong page type
>-page 30472 is wrong type (expected 5 found 0)
>
>The same errors occur if I try to back up the file, access the file
>in IBOConsole, or validate the file in IBOconsole.
>
>Does anyone have any suggestions for recovery?

http://www.ibphoenix.com/main.nfs?a=ibphoenix&page=ibp_db_corr

./hb