We have a single SBS2003 server with exchange 2003 on it. We recently found out that the secondary disk (containing the exchange database files) was on its last leg as well. We attempted to ghost this disk to another new disk, but the ghost process suceeded in wasting 14 hours and accomplishing nothing.
Now the transaction logs and installation files for exchange are all on the disk that is fine. Only the database files were lost. I followed the below process to restore: NTBackup to restore the Information store. This process completed, but the IS would not start as it could not find the database files. Stopped all exchange services. NTBackup was then used to restore the EXCHSRVR folder containing the databse files to the file system directly. The log files were not restored from backup. Started the exchange services Event log entries of the log files replaying to the Information store were seen, the storage groups mounted, and users could access the store. There were no errors reported from any part of exchange that I could find. Messages up to the point of the server being shut down were present and everything seemed perfect. However I then tried to run a backup of exchange, which I do by backing up both the Information store and the exchsrvr folders. When the backup job is doing the database files, ntbackup fails, and the following is logged (a lot): Event ID: 478 Source: ESE Information Store (3120) The streaming page read from the file "F:\Program Files\Exchsrvr\MDBDATA\priv1.stm" at offset 130048000 (0x0000000007c06000) for 3866 (0x00000f1a) bytes failed verification due to a page checksum mismatch. The expected checksum was 4236769710 (0xfc87f9ae) and the actual checksum was 3214649499 (0xbf9ba89b). The read operation will fail with error -613 (0xfffffd9b). If this condition persists then please restore the database from a previous backup. Can anyone suggest a way to get this problem resolved so we can backup the exchange files? Help is appreciated. Regards, Luke Cassar _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with.
