Brick level backup errors are between you and your god; you should be sharing them with your priest, not a technical list.
Do real, full backups run successfully? And if not, what /specifically/ is the error message associated with their failure. > -----Original Message----- > From: Karon Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 9:37 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > > The reason we're trying to run it is because it hasn't ran > successfully in a few months now and we're getting TONS of > "open file" errors at the top of the Information Store during > our backups. We haven't gotten a good backup in two weeks. > Regardless of how we're backing up we're getting errors. > We're thinking it's because it hasn't done an online defrag > in awhile. I have never used ISINTEG does it require > shutting down the services and doing it offline? > > Thanks, > Karon Miller > > > > Online defrag will not fix any corruption. You have to use > Isinteg for that. > > Make a backup and run it on test setup to see if you have > any errors. > > Besides the online terminating very quickly with no errors in the > > event log do you see any other errors during the day? > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Karon Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 10:16 AM > > Subject: RE: Any command line switches to run Online defrag? > > > > > > > Well, it doesn't seem to matter if we schedule an online > defrag or > > > if we just run one right then on the fly it only runs for a few > > > minutes and then stops and says it's terminating. I > didn't even see > > > any errors in the event log. Is it actually running and doing > > > anything? I'm told that if it were really doing anything > it would > > > run for an hour or more. We've been having problems with > it running > > > for a few months now. We've called Microsoft and they > say we have a > > > corrupted IS but we're not ready to rebuild. We're looking for a > > > way to force an online defrag outside of Exchange Admin from a > > > command line prompt. If we have to schedule that first > that's fine > > > but we want to kick off ourselves. Not sure if this is > possible. > > > Also we do not want to do an offline defrage > eseutil/edbutil because > > > that will require taking the services down unless we > absolutely have > > > to. Is an offline our only recourse? If there is > corruption in the > > > database when you do an offline, will it delete those > corrupt files? If so, data loss is expected in an offline. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Karon Miller > > > Blackwell Sanders Peper Martin > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > > 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]
