Re: corrupt datafile

Naw, I'm pretty sure it's not compressed.  Apparently the corruption
happened during a backup, while the file was being backed up.  Thanks for
the attempt, though.  I think it is probably just a header, but I don't know
how to change that.

--Terry


> Hey Terry.. RUN!! ;D -- JK
>
> Is there a chance the datafile was compressed externally with compress or
> gzip? Maybe decompressing it is all that would be required. I know that
> I've mistakenly tried recovering a database and missed decompressing a
> datafile only to have dbv say that the entire file is corrupt.
>
> It's been mentioned that maybe the header is corrupt and maybe that is
> really the case.. however, I find it hard to believe that an entire file
> is corrupt.

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