FYI
We've had the odd MIX format failure - once from a system crash, where
the system went down leaving the data and index files unsynchronized, and
a few times for no discernable reason. For some I was able to recover a
good index from backup.
I started to write a MIX repair tool last year, and recently finished it.
Well, not "finished" exactly - somtimes it generates illegal folders.
Other times it works OK. It rebuilds index headers in data files by
searching for them by regexp (so it can repair a folder with a chunk
missing), and then re-writes the index file and cleans up the status
file.
It's "mixfix" at http://andrew.triumf.ca/mbx (in Perl)
Mark has also released a repair tool, which rebuilds an index file
from the data files. But it won't AFAIK at present fix corrupted
data files.
ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/mail/mixrbld.tar.Z
If anyone cares to beat on mixfix and find the bug(s), that would be
great. Meanwhile, it may help in some cases, though if the only problem
is a missing or broken index file mixrbld is much faster.
--
Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada
Tel. +1 (604) 222-7376 (Pacific Time)
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