Bliss <eternalbliss@techie.com> wrote in message news:<400f1786$1@obsidian.gov.bc.ca>...
> Our disk drive died, and we were able to backup most of the files (all
> the reports, the shuttled, pending, etc)
>
> But when we open the administrator, we get a blank. none of our
> catalogues are listed in there.
>
> I don't want to recreate all the catalogues and reports- does anyone
> know how we can "import" them in there? The database that contains all
> the "data" was not backed up, sicne it was in use during backup (bad
> Network admin)
>
> If anyone can help, PLEASE email. trying to get an answer from cognos,
> but who knows?!!!

Simon Hayes wrote:
> Bliss <eternalbliss@techie.com> wrote in message news:<400f1786$1@obsidian.gov.bc.ca>...
>
>>Our disk drive died, and we were able to backup most of the files (all
>>the reports, the shuttled, pending, etc)
>>
>>But when we open the administrator, we get a blank. none of our
>>catalogues are listed in there.
>>
>>I don't want to recreate all the catalogues and reports- does anyone
>>know how we can "import" them in there? The database that contains all
>>the "data" was not backed up, sicne it was in use during backup (bad
>>Network admin)
>>
>>If anyone can help, PLEASE email. trying to get an answer from cognos,
>>but who knows?!!!
>
>
> I have no idea about the Cognos side of things, but if still have the
> .mdf and .ldf files for your MSSQL databases, you can try using
> sp_attach_db or sp_attach_single_file_db to attach them again. If this
> doesn't work, and you have no backups, then all you can really do is
> contact Microsoft PSS. They may be able to help recover data from the
> files.
>
> By the way, MSSQL databases can be backed up while in use - this is
> usually how backups are done.
>
> Simon