markallenboyle
New Member
First of all apologies for my first post being like this however I have had Progress thrust upon me and was blissfully unaware of its existence until yesterday.
To run the scenario then.
I have a client who had an old SCO box in the corner with an database on it, it was never used nor likely to be used, not backed up to often if ever and kicked regularly by people visiting the coffee machine.
Unfortunately one kick to many left the box dead however a data drive in the box was still available to me and I have managed to recover the progress database files. (DB, D1 etc etc).
I have managed to download progress to a windows machine however when I try and open the db file it states an error relating to the path which seems to be a reference to its prior location on the SCO box.
I have tried now for 24h to get these to mount in some way including hex editing the raw files to put in absolute paths and a few other probably barmy attempts and am wondering if there is any way short of me getting a SCO box fired up of extracting the schema and data from these files to another DB or format.
This is unfortunately not something I was responsible for so there is no backup aside from this file level backup so recovery by prorest etc not possible. What we have is the files and nothing else.
Praying there is a solution to this.
To run the scenario then.
I have a client who had an old SCO box in the corner with an database on it, it was never used nor likely to be used, not backed up to often if ever and kicked regularly by people visiting the coffee machine.
Unfortunately one kick to many left the box dead however a data drive in the box was still available to me and I have managed to recover the progress database files. (DB, D1 etc etc).
I have managed to download progress to a windows machine however when I try and open the db file it states an error relating to the path which seems to be a reference to its prior location on the SCO box.
I have tried now for 24h to get these to mount in some way including hex editing the raw files to put in absolute paths and a few other probably barmy attempts and am wondering if there is any way short of me getting a SCO box fired up of extracting the schema and data from these files to another DB or format.
This is unfortunately not something I was responsible for so there is no backup aside from this file level backup so recovery by prorest etc not possible. What we have is the files and nothing else.
Praying there is a solution to this.