Hi Helen,

>>It was quite interesting for me that the poster mentioned that a
>>backup and restore did not fix the problem. AFAIU gbak pumps the data
>>from the backup file into a new file and then creates the indexes.
>>As the indexes were renewed during the restore, why did the original
>>poster still receive the "partner index description not found" error?

> Probably the restore would not have worked and the rebuilding of the
> indexes was done on the original database (or a copy of it).

Do you mean that he did not restore at all? Of course, I cannot verify
this, but he told me several times that he had done a database backup
and a subsequent restore and the index was still corrupt.

Do you have any other ideas?


Christian