>>>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.
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>APPEND FROM would generate the same error 1707 "Structural CDX file not found" which you can ignore.
OK, I will try it. If it works, I can save about 1/3 of my backup (uncompressed - probably the percentage is greater in the compressed version, because the CDX use some kind of compression!).
Hilmar.
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