And I thought the bottom line was "run eseutil when you have to."
-Yanek. > -----Original Message----- > From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 2:22 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: disaster debriefing > > > What did you do wrong? You ran ESEUTIL!!! > We have been over this a dozen times in here.... > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Yanek Korff > Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 11:16 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > 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] > _________________________________________________________________ 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]
