Depends on how you like your coffee ----- Original Message ----- From: "Yanek Korff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 3:27 PM Subject: RE: disaster debriefing
> 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] > _________________________________________________________________ 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]
