Failed Restore 1

[drichter12]

I have a situation here I cannot get passed.... We had a 3300 ICP go down last night due to a failed harddrive which I have replaced. I have successfully installed the OS (7.1) and re-loaded the licensing from the AMC but when I try to do a restore from backup it is failing. The error I see from the maint port is a checksum error which tells me there is some sort of corruption. I have tried 3 which seperate backups (which are all a week apart) all with the same results. I have also extracted the backup and re-created it just to ensure the archive itself is not corrupt. Is there anyone out there with any other suggestions? I have thought about just copying the backup files back over to the controller manually to their appropriate directories but am not sure if that will work.

Thanks for any suggestions/solutions,


Dale

 

[TheMitelGuy]

The file (tar) may not be corrupted, but the database maybe out of formation (corrupted from the point text is not in the places it should be). The database is very specific where characters and sections are stored.

Do you have an older backup?

 

[drichter12]

I'm working on that now. I'm waiting on the server team to get in so they can pull from tape....


Dale

 

[Lundah]

Try re-loading the OS on the drive as well, I've run into that a few times.

 

[drichter12]

Well, I finally resolved the issue. I reverse engineered the process the system uses during a restore and found that all I really needed to do was copy the files in the "Data_Save" directory in the backup to the "Data_Save" directory on the controller. I left out the vmail files so they lost the 2-3 messages they had on the system. After that, I just had to run the following sequence of commands...

DATA RESTORE
DBMS CHECK FULL
DBMS SAVE

Everything is back up and working great!

Thanks for everyones help


Dale