Not reboot it in the first place?!?! Since you've ruled out good administrative practice, my first step depends entirely on why it won't boot - bluescreen or whatever is a wide range of problems.
First thing is that I ALWAYS shut the box down again, and try restarting it again. After that, its all gut feel. Bluescreen - check Technet for the STOP message and see where that leads. Hardware failure - reseat the component(s) and try again. ------------------------------------------------------ Roger D. Seielstad - MCSE Senior Systems Administrator Peregrine Systems Atlanta, GA http://www.peregrine.com > -----Original Message----- > From: Ron Grant [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 10:46 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: recover from crash > > > Scenario: > You come in one morning, reboot the exchange server, and it > never comes back up, blue screens or whatever. It crashes. > Question: > What do you do FIRST to try to bring it back up? > What do you do Second if that doesn't work? > At what point do you go for the recovery server, and your backup tape? > > I was looking through the disaster recovery paper and its > great...but I didn't see what to do before the backup server > plan. It has tons of switches and command line tools, but im > looking for elementary type notes " When it crashes, try ERD > first and run repair, if that doesn't work try..." Stuff like > that. IF the server boots, I found lots of info on error > messages and the likes to try to get the IS started etc..but > nothing if its basically dead. I know, this is something I > should have learned long ago, but point me to the site, or > papers where I can get this and I can move past this embarrassment! > Thanks! > Ron > > Oh and I found this in the archives: > "When your Exchange server crashed, most likely you need > restore it from the tape. It is time consuming. But, If you > have a clean and working dir.edb stored somewhere else, you > don't need to restore it from the tape, just copy it back! So > when your Exchange server is in a good condition, copy the > dir.edb file to a save location such as another server, or your SAN." > > Is it the dir.edb that causes the crash? And does this copy > tip work most of the time? > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > 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]
