Subject Re: [firebird-support] Corrupt database
Author Robert martin
Hi

Thanks Geoff looks interesting. Will check with client and see if they
have page errors. (I suspect they do, but you never know :) )

Rob Martin
Software Engineer

phone +64 03 377 0495
fax +64 03 377 0496
web www.chreos.com

Wild Software Ltd



Geoff Worboys wrote:
> Hi Robert,
>
>
>> What are peoples other suggestions? The most recent backup
>> they have is 2 days old. There backups have been failing and
>> they have not noticed.
>>
>
> No guarantees but you could try DBak:
>
> http://www.telesiscomputing.com.au/dbk.htm
> (Windows only at this time.)
>
> There is a process option in the set up that can tell it to
> ignore blob errors (the rest of the record is restored but
> the blob is bypassed). It can also ignore some other errors,
> although if you have page errors then it is likely DBak wont
> help very much.
>
> With DBak you can either backup/restore or try a rebuild.
>
>