# How to recover backup with damaged dblock file?

**URL:** https://forum.duplicati.com/t/how-to-recover-backup-with-damaged-dblock-file/5312
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [November 16, 2018, 11:01pm UTC](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/how-to-recover-backup-with-damaged-dblock-file/5312 "2018-11-16T23:01:16Z")
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### Author: ![kees-z](https://forum.duplicati.com/user_avatar/forum.duplicati.com/kees-z/32/29_2.png) [@kees-z](https://forum.duplicati.com/u/kees-z)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2018, 7:44am UTC](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/how-to-recover-backup-with-damaged-dblock-file/5312/6 "2018-11-20T07:44:02Z")

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I’ve had a similar problem, with the difference that in my situation Duplicati complained about _missing_ DBLOCK files.

If the backup fails with error messages about (no) existence of files at the backend, I guess that is has something to do with invalid references in one or more DINDEX files.

For me, the solution was to delete all DINDEX files, delete the local database and recreate the local database.

See [this thread](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/backup-unusable-duplicati-tells-me-to-repair-but-repairing-doesnt-work/4209?u=kees-z) for more information.

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