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Please don't laugh ... .dat files gone forever |
Wed, Oct 12 2011 6:52 AM | Permanent Link |
Adam Brett Orixa Systems | A client has run some sort of anti-virus program (or something) & deleted all the ".dat" files of their DBISAM database.
They have a back up policy, which is to back up the contents of the database folder every day & after 1 week throw away backups older than 1 week. I had left the system being told there was a "good back up system in place" ... its a big organisation so I believed them (last time I will do that) As the use of the system is seasonal, the last data was entered in mid-September, they have now returned to use it again and "its not working" ... I have .idx files and .blb files, but the .dat files (and only those ...) are gone. I know this is a hopeless situation, but I wonder whether there is anything I can do, for example to extract data from the blb files. Adam |
Wed, Oct 12 2011 8:24 AM | Permanent Link |
Roy Lambert NLH Associates Team Elevate | Adam
>I know this is a hopeless situation, but I wonder whether there is anything I can do, for example to extract data from the blb files. Probably not - I'd email or phone Tim directly rather than waiting on a response here. Forlone hope - find an undelete program (mine is fru.exe or FreeUndelete) and pray. Roy Lambert |
Fri, Oct 21 2011 2:13 PM | Permanent Link |
Tim Young [Elevate Software] Elevate Software, Inc. timyoung@elevatesoft.com | Adam,
<< I know this is a hopeless situation, but I wonder whether there is anything I can do, for example to extract data from the blb files. >> No, but you may be able to use an undelete utility, like Roy suggested. The key is to make sure that you stop any disk activity on the affected disk *immediately*. Failure to do so could cause all of the deleted files to become unrecoverable as the space is re-used by the file system. -- Tim Young Elevate Software www.elevatesoft.com |
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