Re: [firebird-support] URGENT : Corrupt Firebird dabase

2013-01-23 Thread Gary Benade
This works for me: gfix.exe -user SYSDBA -password masterkey -m -f -ignore c:\data\yourdb.gdb gbak.exe -user SYSDBA -password masterkey -b -v -limbo -ignore -garbage c:\data\yourdb.gdb c:\data\yourdb.bak ren c:\data\yourdb.gdb c:\data\yourdb_corrupt.gdb gbak.exe -user SYSDBA -password masterkey

Re: [firebird-support] URGENT : Corrupt Firebird dabase

2013-01-23 Thread Alexey Kovyazin
Gary, gbak.exe -user SYSDBA -password masterkey -c -R -K -BU 1 -P 8192 -v c:\data\yourdb.bak c:\data\yourdb.gdb I don't think this is good set of options -c means create database from backup -r means replace existing file. This is dangerous option, but if you specify it, you don't need to

[firebird-support] URGENT : Corrupt Firebird dabase

2013-01-22 Thread rddymanohar
Hi, One of our clients has a corrupted database (we are getting internal gds error). Its a Firebird Database version 1.5.6, the files size is almost 7.5GB, we are unable to recover it with the normal tools, we have run the Repair procedure in IBFIRST aid and followed the recommended steps