Hi,

I have a customer who sent me his backup and one of the files in the middle
throws a data decompression error and stops processing at that point.  They
will go back to the next earlier backup, so it's not a big problem, but it
does bring up a question.

Is if there is any way to clean up damaged DBISAM 4 backup files to remove
the damaged table or to allow processing to continue for the other undamaged
portions of the backup file.

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I am waiting on the answers for this one too.

Regards

"Terry Swiers" <millennnium@1000years.com> wrote in message
news:C28463A3-5DF8-4FA5-96BF-F6B44BA84225@news.elevatesoft.com...
> Hi,
>
> I have a customer who sent me his backup and one of the files in the
> middle throws a data decompression error and stops processing at that
> point.  They will go back to the next earlier backup, so it's not a big
> problem, but it does bring up a question.
>
> Is if there is any way to clean up damaged DBISAM 4 backup files to remove
> the damaged table or to allow processing to continue for the other
> undamaged portions of the backup file.
>
> --
>
> ---------------------------------------
>  Terry Swiers
>  Millennium Software, LLC
>  http://www.1000years.com
>  http://www.atrex.com
>
>  Atrex Inventory Control/POS -
>     Big business features without spending big business bucks!
>
> Atrex Electronic Support Options:
>  Atrex Knowledgebase: http://www.atrex.com/atrexkb.asp
>  Email: mailto:support@atrex.com
>  Newsgroup: news://news.1000years.com/millennium.atrex
>  Fax: 1-925-829-1851
>  Phone: 1-925-828-5892 (M-F, 9a-5p Pacific)
>  ---------------------------------------
>
>

Terry,

<< Is if there is any way to clean up damaged DBISAM 4 backup files to
remove the damaged table or to allow processing to continue for the other
undamaged portions of the backup file. >>

How did the backup file become damaged ?  And the short answer is no, if
part of the backup is damaged, then most likely the rest is garbage.  You
can send me the backup and I can take a look to make sure, however.

--
Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com

<< I am waiting on the answers for this one too. >>

Did you send us an email about this ?  I don't have anything outstanding
that hasn't been answered, and I don't remember receiving anything regarding
this from you.

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Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com