Your lucky. The other guy should be regulated to making cables and coffee. But make sure he gets trained on both. Running eseutil online gee wheeze
----- Original Message ----- From: "Yanek Korff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 2:15 PM Subject: disaster debriefing > Ok, so we had a disaster the other day. Co-Worker of mine ran eseutil > against the private IS to free up some disk space. We were at about 95% > capacity on the drive, and it would creep up to about 98% before the nightly > incrementals, which brought it back down. Now, I'm not positive what > command he ran, but apparently it cleared about 3.5 gigs out of the IS. > Right before eseutil exited, however, it apparently "hung" waiting for a > command prompt. > > I'm a little fuzzy as to what happened after this. I think he tried to > reboot, and then the IS didn't come up -- he got some errors, looked them up > in the KB to very little avail. So when I got in at 9 the next morning, > mail was down. He was still there. > > We managed to put humpty dumpty back together again restoring from the full > backup we made right before starting this procedure. It took several > attempts - he had tried restoring from backup before but hadn't had any > success. I think the procedure we followed was this: > Shut down all exchange services > Start System Attendant & directory service > Restore DS > Stop System Attendant & directory service > Restart System Attendant > Restore IS > > > Any other combination of services running/not running didn't work out. > We're using Veritas Backup Exec BTW. Well everything's back to the way it > was before we started this whole mess. I know I've seen discussions about > eseutil on this list before, but I wanted to revisit this and get some > concrete information. > > What did we do wrong? What's the right way to use eseutil to gain disk > space? I'd appreciate any non-flaming advice, pointers, docs, etc. I find > the archives non-intuitive -- or maybe I'm looking in the wrong place? > Can't seem to find a good place to type in a search phrase "eseutil" and > have it return relevant data (I'm here: http://www.swynk.com) > > -Yanek. > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
