HELP: Frontier's crashed and can't get it running again

[David Carter-Tod]

At 11:52 AM 8/12/2002 -0700, Raymond Yee wrote:
>Any advice about how to address this problem?  I'm thinking of doing a
>recovery of our setup from last night and hope that we don't run into
>this problem again.  (Of course, this seems like a temporary solution
>since it doesn't address the fundamental problem of what's happened with
>my Frontier setup.  Is it database corruption?  How do I avoid it?)

Hard to tell what it is.

I'd probably start by swapping out a backup copy of Frontier.root (rather 
than all the backups), or perhaps even a completely clean Frontier.root.

This is one reason why I keep most of my customizations in their own .root 
guest database.

If you have critical data in your corrupted database (whichever one it is), 
investigate table.jettison (if you can identify the table in question 
that's causing trouble).  Also, find odbextractor which can read even a 
corrupted root.

As to prevention. Regular Save a copy... is the most reliable method of 
prevention.  David Bayly has a suite (Bounce?) that does this for 
you.  Here's my script:
http://www.wcc.vccs.edu/projects/manilaLogging/discuss/msgReader$15

HTH

David
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