Licensing • FirstAID for 3 databases - • FirstAID for 50 databases - • FirstAID Super (10000 DB) - • Download • • Documentation • • • IBSurgeon FirstAID is the tool that can automatically diagnose and repair corrupted Firebird or InterBase databases - it can recover corruptions that neither gbak nor gfix can fix. Supported versions: Firebird 1.0, 2.0, 2.1, 2.5, 3.0, InterBase from 4.0 to XE7.

IBSurgeon is glad to announce the new version of Firebird and InterBase database recovery tool: FirstAID 3.7.

It uses its own layer for low-level database access without using the InterBase or Firebird engine, so it can perform real 'surgical' ope rations and repair your database when all other standard mechanisms (gfix and gbak) cannot. Now you are in 5 minutes from the recovery of your corrupted Firebird or InterBase database! How to repair Firebird database. • - no registration required. • Open the corrupted database with FirstAID and double click on the table name, then browse through table's data pages. • If you decide to recover data you see in FirstAID, the license (you'll get your password i n 15 minutes after completed purchase).

What you see is what you will recover with FirstAID. • Make sure to read before recovery actions! What is a database corruption and how FirstAID repairs it? Usually, the database corruption means that some links between internal structures of Firebird (or InterBase) database are broken. When the database engine sees a broken reference to missed record or database page, it stops to work with a message like this: Internal gds software consistency check () Or, for recent Firebird versions: Internal Firebird software consistency check () Such error messages are reported by gbak tool, by gfix (it writes them into firebird.log), and by end-users applications (you can see the full list of 'software consistency check' errors ). The first part of this error is a common prefix for bugcheck (i.e., serious error), and in the parentheses, there are details of the error.

Usually, such error prevents normal work with the database, and the recovery procedure should be executed. If it was not possible to fix corrupted Firebird (or InterBase) database with standard means (gfix.exe and gbak.exe), it is time for IBSurgeon FirstAID.

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IBSurgeon FirstAID is designed to work with the database directly, on very low-level – it allows bypassing erroneous places where engine crashes and either fix broken links or export all users data to the new database. Two options to recover Firebird or InterBase database with FirstAID IBSurgeon FirstAID 6.0 can perform 2 kinds of recovery operations: direct recovery and data extraction. The direct recovery is intended to fix the original corrupted database in place.

This is a very fast and efficient method: after fixing the broken links database usually becomes readable, and it is possible to perform backup and restore. There are detailed instructions in how to use the direct fix in FirstAID and then perform final steps with gfix and gbak tools. The data extraction is designed to view and export data from the corrupted database to the database with the same structure (usually it should be empty). FirstAID data extraction is applied in the case of heavy corruptions or metadata losses: it uses only a few system tables to decrypt users data and export all available data to the new database. You can download the free version of FirstAID, open the corrupted database and preview all available data – and if you can see these data, they can be saved and exported to the new empty database. FirstAID scans corrupted database then shows the list of tables, so a user can browse them.

With IBSurgeon FirstAID it is possible to repair corrupted Firebird/InterBase databases in more than 95% cases. See video below how to repair Firebird database with IBSurgeon FirstAID: Recovery service Important! If you cannot see data with FirstAID in your corrupted database, please contact our support:. Please send diagnostic log and relevant details (full error text, screenshots, etc) to our support, and get recovery estimation for free.

You will receive an exact free answer on whether your database recoverable or not, is it recoverable by FirstAID directly, or some manual work needed. We will also try to estimate how much of your data can be recovered if there really is a serious problem that will not allow 100% recovery. For serious problems we offer Firebird (and InterBase) database recovery service - see. Common Firebird corruptions and their error codes There is a number of possible corruptions that IBSurgeon FirstAID has been designed to repair and correct. These are listed below: • Internal gds software consistency check (cannot find tip page (165)) The required Transaction Inventory Page is corrupt and the database cannot be opened. Firebird error code (bugcheck number) is 165.