Re: [firebird-support] GBAK Restore Crash
Hello Marius, Can anyone advise what I should be trying, or why this is happening? backup file is physically corrupted. Is there any way that I could instruct GBAK to ignore the table it is having issues with? Backup has linear format, so gbak cannot help here. You need to create another backup or revert to the last good copy. Also you can try our IBBackupSurgeon tool, which is the only tool to save data from corrupted backups - it reads backup at low level and extract data to the new database. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon (www.ib-aid.com) Regards Marius J. Labuschagne [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
RE: [firebird-support] GBAK Restore Crash
Thank you Alexey, I will instruct my Client to execute another backup. Im making the assumption then that this is not a Firebird issue but rather just the luck of the draw when backing up the database? Regards Marius Hello Marius, Can anyone advise what I should be trying, or why this is happening? backup file is physically corrupted. Is there any way that I could instruct GBAK to ignore the table it is having issues with? Backup has linear format, so gbak cannot help here. You need to create another backup or revert to the last good copy. Also you can try our IBBackupSurgeon tool, which is the only tool to save data from corrupted backups - it reads backup at low level and extract data to the new database. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon (www.ib-aid.com)
Re: [firebird-support] GBAK Restore Crash
Marius, Such backup error can be indication of HDD or RAM problems. Check RAM http://www.ib-aid.com/articles/item93 and run checkdsk/another utility to check HDDs. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon (www.ib-aid.com) Thank you Alexey, I will instruct my Client to execute another backup. I'm making the assumption then that this is not a Firebird issue but rather just the luck of the draw when backing up the database? Regards Marius [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
