You gonna pay for the training? -Yanek.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Tony Hlabse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 2:26 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: Re: disaster debriefing > > > 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] > _________________________________________________________________ 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]
