>>There is no relaiable way in foxpro to verify that index is not corrupted. That's why you have to recreate indexes afer restoring from backup.
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>OK, that's why I thought restoring with APPEND FROM (into the empty structure), rather than COPY FILE. The empty structure does includes indices. My worry is: will I be able to open the backup file, for doing an APPEND FROM?
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>Hilmar.

APPEND FROM would generate the same error 1707 "Structural CDX file not found" which you can ignore.