Re: VFP open table corruption

Hi Dan,

This is all Windows networking, and I'm responsible for both the app and the
network. I can't even point fingers of blame. Managed to restore through
backup and audit trail, but I'm scared of it happening again.

There's a bit of history here. Complete comms cabinet repatch, and a failed
UPS and a blackout causing a server RAID card to go nuts over the weekend, a
trip to a data recovery company, and a reinstall today on a different,
second hand and untrusted server (which may have all played a big part).
Just never seen any corruption that comprehensive before. The file was fine
for 6 hours before it decided not to believe in the concept of '1' anymore.

Intend to move from the temp server as soon as some new bits and pieces get
delivered. Might just be Karma, but sure I didn't do anything too bad
recently. Will keep fingers and toes crossed in the meantime.

Neil

"Dan Freeman" <spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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The only time I've seen a DBF that thoroughly and completely horked is
from a client who FAILED TO MENTION that they'd just switched their
file-server to a Linux-based NAS storage system, and nobody there knew
anything at all about Linux.

Hope they have good backups!

Dan

Neil Waterworth wrote:
Hi,

I've had my fair share of header corruption, index corruption, etc,
but got a corrupted table today which was almost impressive in its
destruction.
Table was open shared, approx 40 users had it open, and suddenly
everything went nuts - apps crashing everywhere. Tried to open the
table and it reported corruption, so opened it in a text editor. The
header was almost intact, but every data byte had been converted to
chr(0) - approx 8,300 records. Abri recover rightly just pointed and
laughed.
Has anyone ever had anything similar? I'm not sure where to start
looking because there are around 5 separate apps which use that
table, and all were in use at the time.

The network is having a few problems I admit, but I've never seen a
file zeroed like that before.

VFP 8/9. Any ideas would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Neil




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