Corruption Repair & Recovery
We have senior-level expert knowlege in repairing
damaged GoldMine data files, or any DBF file for that matter. We can come to your
site or you can ship your data here electronically via email, or deliver it
on a disk via UPS or Fed-EX, or almost any other method you can
think of. Your data will be carefully and expertly repaired, and returned to you in
a timely, professional and discreet manner.
- If you believe that you have corrupted data, here
are some do's and don'ts to keep in mind...
| DON'T |
1) Backup over your previous backup tapes. You may backup
worthless data over your only backup of usable data.
2) Run maintenance on your database until you have a full verified backup.
3) Copy any files to the disk where the corrupted data resides.
4) Use CHKDSK or Scandisk until you have a full verified backup.
5) Procrastinate. The longer your data sits corrupted the harder
it will be to correct.
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| DO |
1) Backup your data often, making sure to use a proper and
conservative tape rotation routine!
2) Make sure to backup the DBT files also! Those contain your notes.
3) Once a good backup is made you may be able to repair the file by running GoldMine's
maintenance.
4) Maintain at least one backup of ALL FILES, inlcuding program files and email
attachments.
5) Consult with an expert!
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Some tips regarding corruption...
- Data corruption can happen in many ways and be of
several types. Initially the types can be broken into two categories, internal and
external.
- A file with only internal damage appears healthy to
the operating system but not to GoldMine. In this type of corruption the hard drive and operating
system are healthy, but the file may contain unwanted end of file markers, invalid data in
the header and/or data area, data displacement relative to field boundaries, memo pointers
beyond the end of file, and so on.
- A file with only external damage appears corrupted
to both the operating system and to GoldMine. This normaly involves corruption of the hard disk's file
allocation table (FAT), but could also be related to a virus encrypting part or all of
the file(s).
- A file with BOTH internal and external damage
appears corupted to both the operating system and to GoldMine, however the internal damage may not be readily
apparent, or repairable, until the external damage is fixed.
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No matter what your problem is you can
get good honest advice here. Please contact me at the numbers shown
on the "Contact Us" page.
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