and consider an SSD, wow what an improved with FireBird :)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Helen Borrie" <helebor@...>
To: <firebird-support@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 10:51 PM
Subject: Re: [firebird-support] Consistency Check When Backing Up


> At 02:09 PM 13/01/2009, you wrote:
>>Hi, Helen.
>>
>>I ran gfix and a was able to access the DB, but the schema was pretty
>>messed up and a fair amount of data was lost; table lost columns, and the
>>data for those columns was missing.
>>
>>I had a corruption on this machine (again), and the culprit was
>>security.db; the DB daemon came to a halt. Since the security.db is not
>>massaged through RAM on a backup, would you go out on a limb and say this
>>is a disk issue, or is there something I am completely missing?
>
> Out on a limb, Kurt? In your shoes, I would have ordered in the new HDD
> last Friday by express courier and would have spent the weekend coaxing my
> data onto it, no expense spared. (I did exactly the same myself one week
> before!)
>
> And keep watching the situation closely, in case it is the RAM all along.
>
> ./hb
>