Run, don't walk, to http://www.microsoft.com/exchange and get the disaster recovery document. Read it. Let us know if you need any help understanding it.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Lewis Kapell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 1:15 PM Subject: getting data from priv.edb > Sorry if this message is a duplicate; I tried sending it before but I'm not > sure if it went through. > > My company uses Exchange 5.5 with less than 100 users. One of the drives on > the server went down and the directory (dir.edb) was lost. We have no > backups (yes, I know, shame on us). My question is, can the data (the > users' saved messages) be extracted from priv.edb? > > I ran isinteg -pri -dump, and the result contained a section titled "Dump of > the mailbox table", with entries for each mailbox in our site. For each > mailbox there are about 14 lines of information, followed by a line saying: > Error: 1 database retrieve error on current record. > Can anyone tell me what this error means? Should I be seeing individual > mail messages in this dump file? > > Is there any other way I can extract my user's messages from this file? > Thanks for any help. > > Lewis Kapell > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > 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]
