--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "duque.hernando"
<duque.hernando@...> wrote:

>
> --- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "Adam" <s3057043@> wrote:
> >
> > --- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "duque.hernando"
> > <duque.hernando@> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi to all,
> > >
> > > I've a big trouble while making a backup with gBak (Firebird 1.5) I
> > > get gds_$receive failed error. I've trying using gFix but no

solution.

> > >
> > > I've searched the group posts looking for working arround tips for
> > > this but no one of the solutions have worked yet.
> > >
> > > I've drop all indexes, constraints, primary keys and so on but no
> > > solution.
> > >
> > > I'll appreciate for hints that let me find the object damaged in the
> > > database structure.
> > >
> >
> > Try gbak with -v parameter. This might give you a pointer to the
> > object that gbak is trying to backup at the time the failure occurs.
> > Also, try -g parameter to avoid performing garbage collection as gbak
> > runs. If there is corruption in a backversion only, this will allow a
> > backup to be made.
> >
> > Adam
> >
>
> Hi, It seems that the corruption is not in a backversion because gbak
> with -g parameter didn't work. The -v parameter shows that the
> consistency check seems to be when writing one of the table's data. I
> droped the table, but when running again gbak, the consistency check
> moves to another table, when dropping it, then it moves to another...
> and so on.
>

When you say it moves to another table, do you mean it moves to the
next table, or that the next table was fine but a similar issue is
encountered a couple of tables later?

Are you able to perform a select * on the problematic tables?

Adam