I had a somewhat similar situation. The difference being that my backups were not working correctly (another story). So restoring a good backup of the exchange db was not possible.
I ended resolving the issue by ESEUTIL /P to repair the db errors and later running ISINTEG -fix a couple of times to remove any leftover db corruption from the hard repair process (ie ESEUTIL). That worked. But it was a very long night before I got the database mounted correctly again. Needless to say, ensuring that backups are running correctly, and even performing a test restore, are EXTREMELY important. good luck Luis Aguilera IT Manager BaseSix -----Original Message----- From: Roger Seielstad [mailto:roger.seielstad@;inovis.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 9:06 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Exchange -1018 Error So let's see. You call PSS, and then argue with what they're telling you to do.. Hmmm.. -1018 errors are database corruption, and the only fix it to go back to tape before the corruption. Sounds pretty logical to me. ------------------------------------------------------ Roger D. Seielstad - MCSE Sr. Systems Administrator Inovis - Formerly Harbinger and Extricity Atlanta, GA > -----Original Message----- > From: Salandra, Justin A. [mailto:jasalandra@;chcsnet.org] > Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 8:59 AM > To: ActiveDir (E-mail) > Subject: [ActiveDir] OT: Exchange -1018 Error > > > Hello everyone, > > I know this is off topic but you guys and girls always give > good advice. > > I have been getting event Ids 116, 118 and 200 a lot in my > application log. > > The chain of events went like this > > I installed SP3 for W2K > The next day the Exchange Database went through some type of > conversion and > logged Event ID 174 hundreds of times (Table/Column/Index > Definintions) > On that same day one of my Hard Drives in my RAID 5 Config failed, I > replaced it 3 days later > Since then every time the online maintenance on the exchange > database ran it > logged a Database Page Cache error (Event ID 116 and 118 and 200) > And now ArcServe cannot backup the database fully and commit > the logs to the > database so I now have 500 log files in my mdbdata directory. > > MS Support wants me to restore from the day the HD failed > after I rename the > mdbdata directory and create a new one. Then they want me to > copy in all > the log files and wait for the log files to replay into the > database. The > only other option is to do a eseutil or build a new server and migrate > everyone over. > > Have any of you done what MS is recommending? Do any of you > feel that this > is the way to go? Does anyone know what would of caused > these errors, was > it SP3 or was it the HD Failure? > > Any help is appreciated > > > Justin A. Salandra, MCSE > Senior Network Engineer > Catholic Healthcare System > 914.681.8117 office > 646.483.3325 cell > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:jasalandra@;chcsnet.org> > > List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm > List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm > List archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%> 40mail.activedir.org/ > List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
