Aida I. Rivera-Benítez wrote: > Hi to all! > > Have a client with a strange data corruption issue. When I went to the site > was receiving a "Not a Table" message. I said to myself, piece of cake, > just > fix the affected table(s) or restore from a backup and go on. But when I > tried to > fix the tables received another error and for the first time in more than 20 > years > my fixdbf program didn't work. Upon further inspection of the affected > tables (8), > noticed that the contents was not there, there were filled with spaces, so > no wonder, > nothing to recover. > > Had to restore from a backup and that solve the problem. Now I'm wondering > is it a > hard disk crashing or network failure, well I don't think so, worked in this > scenario > before and the tables either dissapear completely (files deleted) or some > records are replaced > or added with junk values, or is there any utility or antivirus that does > this? so I can remove it. > > Regards.
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