I about had a coronary when I saw that you said you're not running nightly backups. The thought of that is horrifying to me. Having had to several times completely restore a corrupted d/b (usually due to hardware failures introducing database corruption before the drive failed entirely), backups are King in my eyes - a nightly full is the only way to drive. I truly would not even recommend trying to run Exchange without some provision for a nightly full backup. Is there a file server with some space on it? You can run Exchange-aware NT backup, backup to file, and save the .bkf file on another server elsewhere if you've no better solution - at least it's SOMETHING.
ESEUTIL /p is one scary option. There are times it's your only option, but OH MY WORD, it should be your LAST resort short of running into the street screaming. Come to think of it, running into the street screaming is sometimes better. ESEUTIL /p will truncate and delete anything it regards as corrupt within the database. In my case, that was email attachments. ALL email attachments, for 2500 mailboxes. All gone. Bye-bye. I would never, ever run ESEUTIL /p again without copying the corrupt information stores first, and running the utility on the COPY first to judge the effects. Always, but always, try to restore an uncorrupted database from backup before running eseutil /p. Now, as to the log file issue - definitely your antivirus must be set to leave the log file directories alone. Some people recommend not running ANY file-level antivirus on Exchange servers at all. I've done okay running antivirus on mine, provided I do not allow it to run against the log file or database file directories. Symantec is quite capable of being configured to exclude those directories. _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/read/?forum=exchange To subscribe: http://e-newsletters.internet.com/discussionlists.html/ 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.
