FDISK and reinstall's always been kind to me. Your mileage may vary. What did PSS say?
(:= -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Darrkon Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 10:15 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Exchange Disaster Recovery Issues A brilliant deduction! This leads to my next question "How do we fix it???" Cheers :) --- Great Cthulhu Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Probably whatever made it crash in the first place. > > (:= > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Darrkon > Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 7:08 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Exchange Disaster Recovery Issues > > > We will definantly stop OST users from getting on > the > exchange server until a PST dump has been performed > from their OST file. > > Just further to this issue. > > The damn thing started working and saved us > rebuilding > the whole exchange server using PST export/import at > 7pm on a Tuesday night. > The problem now is that each mailbox CAN be accessed > but ONLY by the user who initially owned the > mailbox. > (ie JBloggs is the only user account that can access > the Joe Bloggs mailbox) > No matter what permissions we set on any mailbox > that > still remains, only the initial owner of the mailbox > can use it, this includes administrator being unable > to view the mailboxes. > > Any ideas what might have caused this to occur? > > Thanks for the advice :) > > Luke > > --- Tim Ault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Perhaps. But I don't believe PSS hires > necromancers. > > > > Luke, are any of the users OST Outlook clients? If > > so, disable their NT > > accts before answering my question. Tell them to > > export their mailbox to a > > PST. You'll at least preserve what mail was synced > > locally prior to the > > "incident". > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Chris Scharff > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 11:17 AM > > To: Exchange Discussions > > Subject: RE: Exchange Disaster Recovery Issues > > > > > > For quite some time. > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Martin Blackstone > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 9:54 AM > > > To: Exchange Discussions > > > Subject: RE: Exchange Disaster Recovery Issues > > > > > > > > > Sounds like a call to PSS is in order. > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Luke Cassar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 12:32 AM > > > To: Exchange Discussions > > > Subject: Exchange Disaster Recovery Issues > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > a client of ours recently deleted several log > > files for > > > exchange. The result was that exchange stopped > > working. The > > > client has run several utilities ISINTEG and > > ESEUTIL in no > > > particluar order and we were called in to fix > the > > problem. We > > > continued running these utilities in a > particular > > sequence. > > > The end result was working exchange, but with a > > lot of data > > > missing from mailboxes. A directory import was > > performed > > > using an export from an oversease exchange > server. > > This was > > > imported and restored most of the mailboxes. We > > tried the > > > consistency adjuster for mailboxes to try and > find > > orphaned > > > data in the information store, but the size of > the > > database > > > files is significantly reduced. (eg. from 20GB > to > > 5GB for > > > priv.edb) We have gotten to the point where we > are > > writing > > > off any chance of recovering the data from the > > database > > > itself and are reverting to restoring partially > > from backups > > > (backups had not been working for a significant > > time). The > > > problem we are now encountering is that > mailboxes > > that have > > > shown up as being empty (ie, all data lost) can > no > > longer be > > > accessed by any user (administrator or > otherwise). > > We have > > > re-assigned server and site permissions > > appropriatley and > > > given permission to the user for this mailbox > but > > still the > > > user cannot log on. (even re-mapping the profile > > does not > > > help). If we delete and re-create the mailbox, > > users still > > > cannot access them. > > > > > > Are there any known issues along these lines and > > what would > > > be the best course of action for this situation. > > > > > > Help is appreciated. > > > > > > Regards, > > > Luke Cassar > > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > > 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] > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! 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