Hi

I have managed to fix it by building a new empty database and pumping
the results across. I got no errors while doing this so I suspect all
is now ok. The new database does backup.

Rob

Robert martin wrote:

> Hi
>
> One of our users has a corrupt db that will not backup (following message)
>
> Engine Code : 335544333
> Engine Message :
> internal gds software consistency check (pointer page vanished from
> DPM_next (249), file: dpm.cpp line: 1609)
> gds_$start_request failed
> internal gds software consistency check (can't continue after bugcheck)
>
>
> When I try gfix -m I get
>
> Summary of validation errors
> Number of pointer page errors : 1
>
> When I try an backup after this I still get the initial backup error
> message.
>
> Is there anything else I can do or should they be reverting to the last
> backup and re entering data?
>
> Thanks
> Rob
>
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