If the only errors you are getting are related to Veritas BLBs reporting corrupt messages in Top of Information Store.... And not -1018 or other Exchange related database corruption reporting errors then I believe you should be looking at fixing the technical administration problems you are describing as opposed to restoring or rebuilding anything. I've got some down time coming up soon, be happy to engage in a consulting gig to do a review of your retention plans and policies as well as your disaster recovery plans.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Karon Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 9:34 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > > 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]
