Hello,
On our database (FB 2.5) of 150 GB we have 21 bad sectors of 512 bytes (all in
the same block). because of that the backup/restore not work (even with the
-ignore option). And gfix not help us too much because it's freeze and crash
the fb_inet_server (but it's was also the case before
Hello Stephane,
I assume that your database has good non-corrupted metadata, so you just
need to buy FBDataGuard and export all available records from tables
with problems (using re-export of metadata), then merge good data from
corrupted database and exported records into new healthy
Stephane,
Starting with your subject, you can't delete records in bad sectors. You
can drop tables that have data pages in bad sectors because those pages
aren't touched when the table is dropped. When dropping a table, Firebird
reads the RDB$PAGES table to find the pointer pages and index
