[Zope] DatabaseError: Corrupted data record...

[Christian Tismer]

Tony.McDonald@newcastle.ac.uk wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> Firstly, I'd like to thank everyone for the detailed replies I got to my 'Tough Questions' post.
> I'll reply individually to you all and try to answer some of the questions that *I* got asked, but as 'they' say...
> 
> "...there is one small problem!" (MPaTHG)
> 
> My database has got nuked.

Oh my :-)

...

> DatabaseError: Corrupted data record at 1087646

I didn't try such a thing before. But because the Zope
database is always only appended to (if I'm understanding right),
you might try to truncate the file upto that offset and see
if it is working again? (please keep a backup :-)

ciao - chris

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