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[kawillems]

I have BUMP 5.0.  I back up daily & weekly to tape.  The OS is Win XP.  Occasionally, I have restored files--usually it works fine: just get the tape, go to media view, look for the tape & date in the catalog, find & select the files you want, and hit start.

This weekend, we had a power outage & computer crash & the data drive (on another machine) failed.  When I went to restore files from the weekly backup, the catalog showed only tape names and restore dates.  Where I would normally click the date to expand & see the files / folders list, there was nothing.  Not even an error message.

Of course, I was able to create a temporary catalog from the weekly tape.  I'd like to avoid having to create new catalogs for each tape if there's a way to repair the catalog DAT files.  I found the DAT & IDX files in Program Files/Stomp/Backup My PC/System/Catalogs/Primary.  The DAT & IDX files still show up to 100 Mb, so I assume the data is all still there.

Thanks for any help you can offer.  I searched for threads, but didn't find anything addressing this particular problem.

[marlinsinger]

If there is a catalog recovery process, I have not seen or used it.
Have you tried to do a compress of the catalog? 100Mb is a very large catalog, and may not be recoverable. As far as the data being there, that may not be true. The directory index states the file should be 100MB, but it may be gone.
Is this catalog just 1 weeks worth of backups? Or many?
Have you checked the last backup of the C drive to see if that has a copy of your catalog? That may be the only way you are going to recover it, or most of it. It does seem that after these catalogs get somewhat large there seems to be problems. Myself, I have never had more than a 20MB catalog, and do regular clean ups and compresses.
If a clean up of old backups and a compress do not work, with those old backups, you will be stuck creating temporary catalogs as needed. In that case, I would delete everything in the catalog directories and start over.

Edited by marlinsinger, 08 October 2007 - 02:11 PM.

[kawillems]

Thanks, marlinsinger!  I was afraid of that.  At least I can retrieve the catalog from the tapes--it's just tedious, not difficult!