Damaged databases

Hi

I recently had a hard disk failure on which was running Win2003 SQL2000 SP4.

This server is a sharepoint backend server, I repaired the disk to the point that it could be mirrored across to a new and then set about looking at the databases. There was a schedule in place to backup all 4 DBs daily, the backup process at no time after verifying the backup had any errors. All but one of the DBs reports this error when I attempt to run DBCC or similar query I/O error (bad page ID) detected during read at offset etc. (error 823) I have restored back to the earliest DBs I have and I still get the same error.

Any ideas on how I can recover as much as possible if not all of the DBs? What is the best way to restore from a transaction log? I have found a few articles on it and they all take a slightly different approach for differnet situations however I'm not entirely sure which applies to me.

All help will be very much appreciated.

Rob

Sounds like your backups are corrupt too - I suspect that the disk hardware was going bad for a while and all the backups have backed up corrupted data. Does the backup process backup the databases to the same disk hardware? How often do you run DBCC CHECKDB on your databases to verify their integrity?

You can't recover from just a transaction log - you need to restore a full backup first. What's the DBCC error you get (post the output of "DBCC CHECKDB (yourdb) WITH ALL_ERRORMSGS, NO_INFOMSGS")? Your only option may be to extract what data you can into a new database.

Thanks