>Let me phrase my question another way:
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>If I have a good backup DBC (i.e., mydata.DBC, mydata.DCX, mydata.DCT files) can I copy them over top of a corrupt production DBC without losing associations with the production data tables?
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>The backup DBC is a day-old backup of the production DBC that has gotten corrupted. (No table structures, fields, or indexes have been added or modified since the backup.)
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>I have my data folder backed up. I just want to know if the backup DBC will be OK to use in this way even if though is not the current one, but a replica.
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>Thanks,
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>-Steve

Yes, you could. If there is NO changes in tables, relations, SPs, Triggers, defaults and any other things which are stored in DBC you could copy DBC (and all related files) over the corrupted one.