Ann W. Harrison wrote:

> On 11/17/2010 8:22 AM, Milan Babuskov wrote:
>> I have a corrupt database, which I cannot backup. I run gfix -mend, it
>> seems to report that it's ok, but I get a weird error message when
>> trying to backup:
>>
>> root@datafields:/baze# /opt/firebird/bin/gbak -b fix.fdb fix.fbk
>> gbak: ERROR:I/O error for file "/baze/fix.fdb"
>> gbak: ERROR: Error while trying to read from file
>> gbak: ERROR: No such file or directory
>> gbak:Exiting before completion due to errors
>>
>
> Is it possible this is a multi-file database?

No.

> Also, when working with dicey
> databases, I tend to use the -g switch on backup to avoid
> running into problems on back versions that I don't care about.

I forgot about that, thanks. I was able to back it up now.

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Milan Babuskov

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