Sorry, no help I know...
But I am totally disgusted by the quality of gbak and gfix.... enough
to have to write my own as soon as I get some time.
error 38 appaears to have three meanings :-
1. Reached EOF
2. Disk Full
3. Not Supported.
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From: "Cheng Wei" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [DUG]: IB6 db corruption
Date sent: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 09:31:42 +1200
>
> G'Day all,
>
> I'm trying to recover from a corrupted IB6 database, I've tried the
> following steps to no avail (:-(
>
> 1. Connect to the db from IBConsole, failed - "I/O error, error while
> trying to read from file, unknown Win32 error 38", according to Win32 help
> Error 38 is ERROR_HANDLE_EOF. So I tried these......
>
> 2. gfix -v -f: It reported: "database file appears corrupt () -bad
> checksum -checksum error on database page 1689".
>
> 3. gfix -m -i: The db was mended with this message: "Summary of
> validation errors, Number of data page errors: 24, Number of index page
> errors: 4, Number of database page errors: 29".
>
> 4. gfix -v -f again with the same result, I was hoping to backup the db
> using the following command, but failed.
>
> 5. gbak -g -b -z -v -l: "I/O error, error while trying to read from
> file, unknown Win32 error 38".
>
>
>
> Anyone know of a good tool (other than isql, gfix, gbak) which might be
> able to do the job for me?
>
> Our customer's most recent backup is about 3 weeks old, this is an
> urgent fix, Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
> Regards
>
> Cheng
>
>
Regards
Rohit
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