RE: Restore E2k.

[Benjamin Zachary]

Title: Message

hehhe yah Kevin was busy :). I really wasnt overly worried its only a 100mb edb file. The customer can live without it. Their bust anyway for not taking my recommendation on the AV solution. Basically they got hacked to hell. The admin acct was changed to blank, the exchange service account lost admin rights, ex admin rights, and the acct was set to expire. This probably started the entire chain of events. While I was trying to read through some e2k articles my buddy started fussing with it, we tried the /disasterrecovery option with absolutely no luck. The log files were fuxored, 6.5 gb of log files in 10 days, and 100mb priv and 5 mb pub (they dont use pub).   5.5 was pretty straight forward in single store configs, you could wipe all but the .edb and reinstall and be ok. I can get back other files, but I manually removed the AD config of exchange because I couldnt reinstall w/o doing it that way. I see some mention of other files and the AD layout etc, seems pretty messy in a disaster recovery mode you would need so much more info.. oh well.. -----Original Message----- From: Joe L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 3:05 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Restore E2k. Dude, WTF did you do that for? We need a lot more config info, dr in e2k is a frickin dream, it automates a lot of the cmd line in e55. You cannot just copy the mdbs anyway, and voila it’s a little more involved then that. The reason you can easily restore from ntbackup is cuz those guys @ Redmond automated the needed mdb utilities for you! Post old, and current machine config. You should have called PSS first before you even touched the box if you hadn’t already known the correct steps. I have only not been able to fix one exchange server in my life, my first I ever built! That was to hard a lesson, and a lot of people were not happy about the one day of lost mail, and I was unhappy about recreating the dir in e55! “Back the sh!t up outta everything” was my new motto.   It sounds as if you inherited someone else’s mess… Iether way, she sounds messy…. Get back to us with all the needed info. Are there any logs left?   Jlc   Ps. You should have talked to Kevin first! HAHAHA sorry…   -----Original Message----- From: Benjamin Zachary [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 12:09 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Restore E2k.     Came across a blown up Exchange 2000 server that wouldnt let the services start with error 1038. Basically copied out the mdbdata directory and removed (manual remove process) and did a clean install, much like I would an ex5.5. To no avail, Im unable to get these mdbs back online. I scoured all over the mskb,support,swynk,technet,slipstick and found nothing really going over restoring from backup except when using ntbackup.. List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm