Strange FM server Crash

[nightdesigns]

Had a power outage today and it was long enough that my UPS sent my network into shutdown mode. In theory, it properly shut down FMS. Some of the attached clients weren't on backup power so when power went, so did they. 1-2 users may have been connected at the time.

Restarted FMS, files were loading, but very slowly (go to hosts, not all files would be there, go to hosts again, a few more would be there.). Not all the files showed up so i restarted the FM service. That got it going.

Users complain of no "find" mode in main 2 files (linked). I check with my master password, same thing. Shut down server, open just as a file, same thing. Double check password settings. Few choice words later ... i check the previous night's backup, that works fine. I recover the file, that fixed the find problem, but in my secondary main file (if that makes sense) show all recrods doesn't work.

So right now i'm in the process or recovering all the files. Hopefully this will work. If not i'm pulling the previous backup. Only a loss of about 6 hours since the backup and poweroutage, but still. Anyone have any idea what happened?

-j

[Anatoli]

Some corruption, possibly FM cache wasn't properly written to disk. On what platform? Try decrease the cache size and/or flush it more often.

[Vaughan]

Open the files in FMP (the client) so it can check them.

[Paolo]

Even if you can recover the files you should serve up the backup files.

Recovered files may still be corrupted even if they seem to work correctly.

Off course you can import data from the recovered files into the backup files.

Btw: are you sure that FM Server shut down correctly?