I can't really picture exactly how this server got restored and what you might or might not have gotten right, so I would recommend that you:
1. Build a new Exchange server and join it to the site. 2. Take a full offline backup of your old server. 3. Follow FAQ Appendix A to move everything to the new server. 4. Remove the old server from service and use it for something else. Ed Crowley MCSE+I MVP Tech Consultant Compaq Computer "There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems." -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Elmer St�wer Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 4:43 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: log is not active - Backup Problem Hi, we have a 'standalone' 5.5 (latest updates) running under NT 4 SP 5. It is backed up with an external Streamer and NT-Backup. Clients are mostly Outlook 2000 on win2k. A few weeks ago the harddisk with the mdbdata and the dsadata directory crashed. I was able to read the data on a different machine after freezing the harddisk:) Because the Data seemed to be more up to date I decided to try to restore the 'offline' data from the crashed hard disk. It did not work:( So I decided to restore the data from tape. After deleting some log files I could start Exchange again and now it is still up and running. But now the Tape-Backup of the private folders is not working anymore. In the event log I get an error message like (sorry, translated from german): call from BackupPrepare() responded with error: 'the log is not active'. Logging was set to active with the Exchange Administrator. To test I deleted log files which where not uses since the restore. And I used the eseutil and tried to repair the db. Nothing worked. Anyone any idea what is wrong now? elm (sorry for the bad english... it is getting better;) -- Elmer St�wer CyberConsult - Beratungsgesellschaft f�r Neue Medien mbH Tel: (030) 39 99 05 -42, Fax: (030) 39 99 05 -67 mailto:[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]
