IBFirstAID Diagnostician 1.0 -

Diagnostics/recovery of InterBase databas

IBFirstAID Diagnostician

IBFirstAID Diagnostician: IBFirstAID is a tool for automatic diagnosis and repairing of corrupted InterBase/Firebird databases. Diagnostics features of free version allow you to checkup database's health and prevent possible serious problems caused by corruptions. Full version of IBFirstAID allows you to save data after heavy corruptions: when gfix fails, IBFirstAID will save your data. It can repair up to 80% of the most prevalent corruptions. The main corruption's types which IBFirstAID is intended to fix are listed below: Internal gds software consistency check (cannot find tip page (165)) The required TIP pages are lost and engine cannot open the database. IBFirstAID repairs the missed pages and recovers the database. Unknown database I/O error for file "*.gdb". Error while trying to read from file. Usually it indicates that many pages are lost in the end of the file (probably power failure?). The engine cannot open the database, so gfix fails. IBFirstAID recreates the missed system pages and cuts the wrong links.Database file appears corrupt. Wrong page type. Page NNN is of wrong type (expected X, found Y) This error can mean the various things, but usually the database file has missed pages. For example, if expected=5, it means that some table data are corrupted - it may prevents the backup or make this table unavailable. IBFirstAID fixes the wrong page's links and repairs the database.Wrong record length. IBFirstAID checks every record in database and can repair some record-level errors.Other database corruptions caused by lost pages.