Recover from existing .db

[shaiss]

So our win2k server that was running our shopsite server crashed. Nothing major, but I was able to get recover the .db files from our backup system.

I noticed an orders.db and orders.p.db both dated recently and contain order and customer data respectively.

We were running shopsite 7.1 and the files begin with IDB 2.1. So my guess is that ShopSite 7.1 was using the now defunct instantDB.

After much searching I found DataBrowser which can open these .db files, but only sees system tables. I can open the .db files in a text editor and see the customer/order data, but its surrounded by garbage.

Is there any way to recover the data in these files?

[Jim]

There is no off the shelf program that would be able to recover the data. You could check with your host who can check with ShopSite or you can contact ShopSite if you host isn't a ShopSite partner to see if will be possible to get the complete data from the files (Note that both files go together so you need both inorder to do anything at all) There would probably be a fee for recovering data.

[shaiss]

I've tried contacting shopsite. And in this case we are a hosting provider and this is one of our internal stores .