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Hi there, We ran an index check the other night which reported 4 system errors. However a couple of other error messages seen around the time have left me confused about the outcome. Although the index check showed a 2805 error it also showed the following: Database has not been...

Hi there, We are running an Openedge 10.1b database on WIndows Server 2000. We have a script which runs a pro backup every night. Since adding 20 gig worth of extents the database has not completed a successful backup. The backup fails after a few minutes with the error 1617 - Backup failed...

Hi there, This morning our replication scripts which perform an online probkup failed with the following error: Please enter next device/file name or type "quit" to exit I have since learned that the database backup file can grow to only a certain size before more media must be defined. I...

Hi there, We are currently using Openedge 10.1C on Windows 2003 platform. We are running some scripts which every 15 minutes perform after image replication from our live box to our target box. Our target database is never running unless we need to fail over. Our source box has large files...

Hi there, Within our application we are initiating several back end web service calls to thrid parties. We build our instruction and then recieve the response message through the same transaction. It appears that on multiple occasions that the response message often is received as a blank...

Hi there, We run some scripts every 15 minutes to perform after imaging on our main database and roll forward on a hot standby on another server in a seperate location. We use Progress 9.1D (soon to be upgraded) on a Windows Server 2003 platform. The databases are auto started by a batch file...

Hi there, Is it possible to startup a single database through Procontrol using a batch file? We are using Progress 9.1e on Windows 2000 system and are trying to automate a shutdown of one database on an evening. We then overwrite it with the backup from a live database and start it back up...

Thats great Tom thanks for your help. We are looking at upgrading and at improving our AI solution to safeguard against these issues as much as possible. Thanks again, Matt

Thanks Tom, there are currently 17 fixed (2Gig) extents and 1 variable extent on the data area. There are 5 fixed (2Gig) and 1 variable index extents. The virus scanner is switched off on the server so that shouldnt have been a problem whilst the systems team have confirmed that no backup was...

Hi Tom, The errors we received are pretty much summed up by this below. Although we have nothing to confirm it we believe that this could have been caused by our SAN on which the databases sit. SYSTEM ERROR: <function>: Bad file descriptor was used during <system call>, fd <file descriptor>...

Hi there, We are operating a Progress 9.1D database on a Windows Server2003 Platform and we currently have AI replicating into a warm standby box on a seperate site every 15 minutes. We recently had some corruption in our master database and when unfortunately when we came to fail over our...

Hi Tom, Thanks for the feedback. Unfortunately the other two options were not viable options for the business leaving the bi truncation as the only available option. I did test this routine before releasing into live and it worked fine. What is involved in reseeding the database? Thanks and...

Hi there, Following this advice we truncated our bi file last night which worked fine. Upon restarting our replication scripts our roll forward failed with the error that the dates were mismatched. We have tried manual roll forwards on what should be the correct ai files but this has again...

Hi there, We have an application using Progress 9.1d on a Windows Server 2003 platform. The databases are replicated accross to a seperate machine every 15 minutes using after image files and php replication scripts. I have noticed that recently the before image file is growing very large on...

Thanks for all the information Tom. I will schedule some time in to truncate the bi file, I agree 5 Gig is far too big. I expect that could be due to the fact that the database has remained untouched with nothing but roll forwards occuring for the best part of a year! Thanks again. Matt