Re: [U2] fixtool
Hi Doug, is fixtool the best way to repair a universe file? In my experience with the various repair tools over many years of working with UniVerse, fixtool does seem to be able to repair more corruptions than the previous tools. I read somewhere that all it does is fix the broken link (fixing the file but losing the data that the broken link pointed to). This may be all that can be done. A backward link error often means that two groups apparently own the same overflow block. The data of one will have overwritten the other. There is no way that any recovery tool could ever get back the lost data. Martin Phillips, Ladybridge Systems Ltd --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
RE: [U2] fixtool
I read somewhere that all it does is fix the broken link (fixing the file but losing the data that the broken link pointed to). This may be all that can be done. A backward link error often means that two groups apparently own the same overflow block. The data of one will have overwritten the other. There is no way that any recovery tool could ever get back the lost data. Yes, data truncated. Fix, as in when you get your dog fixed: snip, snip. --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
RE: [U2] fixtool
Heehee, Chuck! I once heard a 3rd party presidential candidate refer to the major parties' fixing Social Security that way. You can use fixtool in the interactive mode, if you really feel bold, adventurous, know what you're doing and it helps if your family owns the company. If it's a broken flink, you're pretty much hosed (ok, you _could_ restore the file somewhere else from tape find the proper flink for that frame by looking at the restored file). But if it's a blink, you can trace to the break, and key in the proper backward link, fixing - er, correcting - the chain. May I interject here that this is (to me) a major reason why you want to avoid overflow. Wide and shallow shall be your files. If you have no overflow (an impossible ideal, but strive in that direction), you cannot have broken links to overflow. Subject: RE: [U2] fixtool Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 12:04:30 -0400 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.orgI read somewhere that all it does is fix the broken link (fixing thefile but losing the data that the broken link pointed to).This may be all that can be done. A backward link error often means that two groups apparently own the same overflow block. The data of one will have overwritten the other. There is no way that any recovery tool could ever get back the lost data. Yes, data truncated. Fix, as in when you get your dog fixed: snip, snip. --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ _ Your PC, mobile phone, and online services work together like never before. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/108587394/direct/01/ --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
RE: [U2] fixtool
- Original Message - From: Dan Fitzgerald [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: RE: [U2] fixtool Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 13:59:55 -0400 Wide and shallow shall be your files. That was Dan channeling Yoda (though the verb should have been at the end: wide and shallow your files shall be). It's good advice nonetheless. --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
