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Windows 2003 buffer flushing
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Databases,Tables, Views, Indexing and SQL syntax
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP1
OS:
Windows XP SP2
Network:
Windows 2003 Server
Database:
Visual FoxPro
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Thread ID:
01170405
Message ID:
01170419
Views:
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>One of my customers just had the dreaded power outage with the almost dead battery on the UPS. The UPS lasted less than 3 minutes, not enough time for the user to get to it and shut down.

IMHO your customer must invest in this case in new UPS. The problem isn't in any software.

One simple question.
If the HDD is damaged may be your software must recover data? ;o)


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>Almost every time this has happened over the past 15 years we have been able to recover almost all the data. This time a considerable amount of data, as in the entire day's work, was lost. Several tables showed no error at all but the data just was not at the bottom of the table. Not just FoxPro data were lost. Another app (on the same server) that uses a separate file for every order suffered the same fate. Almost all of the days work, about 15 orders, was missing.
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>The customer was able to restore from the previous days backup but I would like to prevent this in the future if possible.
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>I remember a short time back there was a discussion about settings on Windows servers that could cause the server to not flush the buffers to disk. Anyone have any knowledge in that area?
>TIA
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