[foxboro] ICC to CP disconnect

Here is the mystery:
 
Using ICC I brought up one of our CPs to tweak a few Device parameters
but found ... NOTHING ...  No blocks, no compounds, heck there weren't
even any ECB blocks - only the empty primary.  This CP looks, for all
intents and purposes, like it has been initialized and rebooted.
However, using FoxSelect, I can see all the compounds and blocks on this
same CP and the sequence blocks can run.
 
Here is the question:
 
How can I upload the database that exists in the CP to the ICC?  After
searching the documentation on the electronic documentation CD, it looks
like I have the option to 1) REALLY initialize the CP and perform a
Load_All from a relatively recent Save_All, or 2) use the ICCupload()
command in the ICCAPI.  However, if I take the second choice, will it
rebuild the ECB blocks as well?  Documentation doesn't state.
 
History:
 
After doing a lot of work on our lab system (fortunately this is not on
a system running product [Hmmm!!!]) I decided to perform a Delete &
Undelete on all of the compounds in the different CPs that I had been
working in.  There are eight compounds on the CP in question and I ran
the D/U on only one of them.  However,  six hours later our system
performed an automatic Save_All (cron job) and the Save_All files are
basically empty.  The other oddity here is that seven of the eight
subdirectories on the AW (Solaris 8/FV 9.0.1/I/A 7.1.1) containing
sequence logic blocks for compounds are still in tact.  One is,
inexplicably, missing (scary music here).
 
Any thoughts on what might of happened (including the idiot driving the
keyboard) and the best course of action, would be appreciated.
 
Thanks
 
Matt Gunter
ATK Launch Systems
 
P.S.  I have just discovered that one of the other compound
subdirectories is missing.  This time, however, the compound is not only
available to Fox Select, but also to the ICC.  It seems like the moral
of the story is to NOT use Delete and Undelete.
 
 
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