Kelly,

> it's a very simple DB file. no external tables, nothing fancy. just
> around 25 tables in the DB and 8 gigs of data. all straight ahead. not
> even any embedded triggers or user-defined functions or anything. just
> tables, fields, records.
>

If you haven't discarded the .fbk, you might get the free trial version of
IBBackupSurgeon. It may be able to analyze the start of the backup file
and help unravel the mystery.

Ann


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