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

[Raymond Yee]

Thanks, David -- we ended replacing Frontier.root with a backup copy just as
you suggested -- and thinks seemed to work now.  Thanks also for the advice
about table.jettison.  We've been trying out bounce on another machine and will
now make it a priority to use it on our production machine!

-Raymond

David Carter-Tod wrote:

> 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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