Brick-level backups are not protection against a store failure, just a convenience if you need to recover a mailbox or some content. Follow FAQ Appendix B and you don't need brick-level backups. What you didn't say was whether you back up the Information Store, not the store files. If you back up the Information Store, then you could perform a restore of the database from the time before you started having the problems. Whether you should do that depends on the errors you're getting, but you didn't provide sufficient detail for me to make such a recommendation, and I'm not sure that I'd make that kind of a recommendation in this forum in any case. Maybe your best bet is to call PSS.
Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP kcCC+I Tech Consultant hp Services Protecting the world from PSTs and Bricked Backups! -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Karon Miller Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 7:34 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Backing up Exchange 5.5 We're trying to backup one in particular Exchange 5.5 server and we keep getting tons of "corrupt file" errors and we're told that we have a corrupt database. We use Veritas Backup Exec 8.6, we have an Outlook 2002 client loaded on the server because yes, we're doing brick level backups. We cannot get the online defrag to run it runs for a few minutes and then terminates I don't think it's really doing anything because it would take longer if it was. Is there a way to force an online defrag? I have tried over and over to convince my management to NOT do bricklevel backups but to no avail. So, since I'm forced to do them we need a better way to do them if there is a better way. We only back up the IS once a week if that and we've never backed up the pub.edb and priv.edb because you have to stop the services to truly back those files up. I've also tried to convince them to let us take it offline to perform offline defrags which will create new clean databases but in order to do so I'm told it will delete alot of messages any message that it thinks is corrupt and so they don't want to do that. This server is hanging on by a thread. Please help with any suggestions that you have other than "Don't do bricklevel backups". So, is there anything we can do other than rebuilding this server? How do you backup the pub and priv without shutting down the services? We do not use the open file agent it's don't work and never has. Thanks, Karon Miller E-Mail Administrator Blackwell Sanders Peper Martin, LLP [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]
