[Zope] - Windows95 Crash Recovery

[Jim Fulton]

Norman Vine wrote:
> 
> I have been unable to use the ZOPE
> database after a system crash in Win95
> and subsequent scandisk operation.

Hm.  Did you have a backup? :)

> error message
> 
> DatabaseError corrupted data record at ....
> 
> Is there a rccomended way to rebuild the Zope database ??

No, but there should be.  The database format is pretty 
simple and has a number of redundancies built-into it that
should make it possible to recover most of the file.

I'll go ahead write a tool to do this.  In the mean time, 
please send mt your bobobase (as a gzipped file or tar ball
in private mail) and I'll:

  - use it to test a recovery program, and

  - repair it and send it back to you.

Jim


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