As I said in an earlier post, the quickest way out of this would likely be to move the mailboxes to another server, delete the priv on this one and move them back. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Karon Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 10:33 AM Subject: RE: Any command line switches to run Online defrag?
> Veritas Backup Exec 8.6. and NO we're not using the Open File Agent > because that doesn't work. And yes, we're doing BLBs because my hands are > tied on changing this policy. I don't think my problem now is related to > doing BLBs its that we can't get a good online defrag to run possibly due > to database corruption. We may have to do some offline defrags but we're > hoping we can fix this online. Thanks, Karon > > > "Open file" errors? What are you using to do backup? > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Karon Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 9:37 AM > > To: Exchange Discussions > > Subject: Re: Any command line switches to run Online defrag? > > > > > > 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] > _________________________________________________________________ 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]
