Hello Steve
 
You said that this was a home brew data base system. 
 
Can you tell us a little more. 
Which O/S are you using? Hardware? and Filesystem?  A raw filesystem? 
 
Can you back this up with another backup program and restore it correctly? For 
example tar, ntbackup. 
Can you copy the files to another filesystem and then to your restore location?
 
A wild guess is this might be a sparse file problem. 
 
len

        -----Original Message----- 
        From: Steve Curry [mailto:scurry AT yahoo-inc DOT com] 
        Sent: Tue 9/24/2002 6:04 PM 
        To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu 
        Cc: 
        Subject: [Veritas-bu] database backup
        
        

        Hello list!
        
        I'm backing up a binary database.  The database is 14gigs in size and is
        offline during the backup.  The backup reports a status of 0 and I see
        no errors in the logs.  However when I restore the database (which also
        reports success) the database is only 1.3 gigs in size.  So, somewhere
        out there in the land of 1's and 0's I've lost 13 gigs... or so it
        seems.  Has anyone experienced this?  The DBA says that the database is
        missing data as one would assume.  I've opened a case with veritas and
        sent them the logs and they also confirm that as far as they can tell,
        nothing is going wrong with the backup or restore.  Short of Jenny Craig
        for databases... what in the world could be going on?
        
        Suggestions please...
        
        Steve Curry
        
        
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