RE: Repairing individual mailboxes
Well my rule would be if theres nothing wrong with the e00.log file, do not delete it, these log, in addition to being a pain in the arse play an important roll in playing back the transactions that Exchange has undertaken, you need these logs to do a proper recovery on your database. It would have been handy for me if I Had come in and they not been deleted! -Original Message- From: Fyodorov, Andrey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 30 September 2003 19:35 To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Repairing individual mailboxes I guess that's the main thing they learned in their paper MCSE school - delete that dang E00.log file, those transaction logs are a pain in the ass anyway, just taking up space. Sincerely, Andrey Fyodorov Systems Engineer Messaging and Collaboration Spherion -Original Message- From: Neil Doody [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 2:10 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Repairing individual mailboxes Hmm, well the luckily, but maybe in the long run not so luckily, the policy currently employed here is most people have PST's. Now don't taunt me on that, I have submitted multiple justification proposals to have more hard disks, veritas with SIS, everyone on mailboxes with 7 day rollback enabled and Outlook 2003 with cache folders, especially for the 64k sites. Currently the policy is we have arcserve with Brick Level Backup and most people keep there data in PST files. I have used this problem that occurred at the weekend once again to push for Veritas at the very least. Again I re-itterate, this is not by my choice, I am seeing to get it all changed. Anyway, I don't know what caused the corruption, I blaimed it on Arcserve ;p When I got in late, my car wouldn't start I was late (coincidence!), others had already began work to fix the databases that wouldn't come online, they deleted the e00.log file for some strange reason (even out of the recycle bin :o) I then came in and did my best to get the server back online, I have managed to with minimal loss of data. Unfortunately, I'm the best they have here, and I'm not brilliant myself, but I am making do best with the resources available to me (anyone got any spare HDD's? ;p) Anyway, you didn't even ask me none of that, but thought id put everyone in the picture! But as for the recovery server idea, I guess it would be a good idea for me to get a spare server to use as test recovery huh? But anyway the tape backup jobs only run on weekdays, the server messed up sometime at the weekend, so it is only the weekends emails that are lost, but they obviously weren't backed up! -Original Message- From: Andy David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 30 September 2003 18:54 To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Re: Repairing individual mailboxes Have you tried restoring to a recovery server with another backup to see if you can grab the mailboxes that way? What caused the initial corruption? - Original Message - From: Neil Doody [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Exchange Discussions [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 1:42 PM Subject: Repairing individual mailboxes I had some database corruption over the weekend, ive recovered from this and the system is working relatively okay. Some mailboxes however seem to have gotten corrupted. If I send a mail to a user with a corrupt mailbox, they go into outlook and there Inbox is empty. I look in the system manager and the email is stuck in the Queue, if I look at the mailboxes view within system manager it shows there are items in the users mailbox. I tried using ExMerge and it runs but extracts no emails. If I delete the users mailbox and recreate it, they work fine, so there is defiantly a problem with there mailbox on the server. Are there any repair tools that can just attempt to repair and get any data from an individual mailbox from with an Exchange Database? _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchangetext_mode=; lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchangetext_mode=; lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchangetext_mode=; lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ
Repairing individual mailboxes
I had some database corruption over the weekend, ive recovered from this and the system is working relatively okay. Some mailboxes however seem to have gotten corrupted. If I send a mail to a user with a corrupt mailbox, they go into outlook and there Inbox is empty. I look in the system manager and the email is stuck in the Queue, if I look at the mailboxes view within system manager it shows there are items in the users mailbox. I tried using ExMerge and it runs but extracts no emails. If I delete the users mailbox and recreate it, they work fine, so there is defiantly a problem with there mailbox on the server. Are there any repair tools that can just attempt to repair and get any data from an individual mailbox from with an Exchange Database? _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchangetext_mode=lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Repairing individual mailboxes
If Exmerge doesn't do it, you are pretty much out of luck, in my experience. Ben Winzenz Network Engineer Gardner White (317) 581-1580 ext 418 -Original Message- From: Neil Doody [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Posted At: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 12:42 PM Posted To: Exchange (Swynk) Conversation: Repairing individual mailboxes Subject: Repairing individual mailboxes I had some database corruption over the weekend, ive recovered from this and the system is working relatively okay. Some mailboxes however seem to have gotten corrupted. If I send a mail to a user with a corrupt mailbox, they go into outlook and there Inbox is empty. I look in the system manager and the email is stuck in the Queue, if I look at the mailboxes view within system manager it shows there are items in the users mailbox. I tried using ExMerge and it runs but extracts no emails. If I delete the users mailbox and recreate it, they work fine, so there is defiantly a problem with there mailbox on the server. Are there any repair tools that can just attempt to repair and get any data from an individual mailbox from with an Exchange Database? _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchangetext_mode=; lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchangetext_mode=lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Repairing individual mailboxes
Have you tried restoring to a recovery server with another backup to see if you can grab the mailboxes that way? What caused the initial corruption? - Original Message - From: Neil Doody [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Exchange Discussions [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 1:42 PM Subject: Repairing individual mailboxes I had some database corruption over the weekend, ive recovered from this and the system is working relatively okay. Some mailboxes however seem to have gotten corrupted. If I send a mail to a user with a corrupt mailbox, they go into outlook and there Inbox is empty. I look in the system manager and the email is stuck in the Queue, if I look at the mailboxes view within system manager it shows there are items in the users mailbox. I tried using ExMerge and it runs but extracts no emails. If I delete the users mailbox and recreate it, they work fine, so there is defiantly a problem with there mailbox on the server. Are there any repair tools that can just attempt to repair and get any data from an individual mailbox from with an Exchange Database? _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchangetext_mode=lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchangetext_mode=lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Repairing individual mailboxes
Hmm, well the luckily, but maybe in the long run not so luckily, the policy currently employed here is most people have PST's. Now don't taunt me on that, I have submitted multiple justification proposals to have more hard disks, veritas with SIS, everyone on mailboxes with 7 day rollback enabled and Outlook 2003 with cache folders, especially for the 64k sites. Currently the policy is we have arcserve with Brick Level Backup and most people keep there data in PST files. I have used this problem that occurred at the weekend once again to push for Veritas at the very least. Again I re-itterate, this is not by my choice, I am seeing to get it all changed. Anyway, I don't know what caused the corruption, I blaimed it on Arcserve ;p When I got in late, my car wouldn't start I was late (coincidence!), others had already began work to fix the databases that wouldn't come online, they deleted the e00.log file for some strange reason (even out of the recycle bin :o) I then came in and did my best to get the server back online, I have managed to with minimal loss of data. Unfortunately, I'm the best they have here, and I'm not brilliant myself, but I am making do best with the resources available to me (anyone got any spare HDD's? ;p) Anyway, you didn't even ask me none of that, but thought id put everyone in the picture! But as for the recovery server idea, I guess it would be a good idea for me to get a spare server to use as test recovery huh? But anyway the tape backup jobs only run on weekdays, the server messed up sometime at the weekend, so it is only the weekends emails that are lost, but they obviously weren't backed up! -Original Message- From: Andy David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 30 September 2003 18:54 To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Re: Repairing individual mailboxes Have you tried restoring to a recovery server with another backup to see if you can grab the mailboxes that way? What caused the initial corruption? - Original Message - From: Neil Doody [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Exchange Discussions [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 1:42 PM Subject: Repairing individual mailboxes I had some database corruption over the weekend, ive recovered from this and the system is working relatively okay. Some mailboxes however seem to have gotten corrupted. If I send a mail to a user with a corrupt mailbox, they go into outlook and there Inbox is empty. I look in the system manager and the email is stuck in the Queue, if I look at the mailboxes view within system manager it shows there are items in the users mailbox. I tried using ExMerge and it runs but extracts no emails. If I delete the users mailbox and recreate it, they work fine, so there is defiantly a problem with there mailbox on the server. Are there any repair tools that can just attempt to repair and get any data from an individual mailbox from with an Exchange Database? _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchangetext_mode=; lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchangetext_mode=; lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchangetext_mode=lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Repairing individual mailboxes
That blows. On the upside, a recovery server can be a simple PC as long as it has enough disk space. -Original Message- From: Neil Doody [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 11:10 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Repairing individual mailboxes Hmm, well the luckily, but maybe in the long run not so luckily, the policy currently employed here is most people have PST's. Now don't taunt me on that, I have submitted multiple justification proposals to have more hard disks, veritas with SIS, everyone on mailboxes with 7 day rollback enabled and Outlook 2003 with cache folders, especially for the 64k sites. Currently the policy is we have arcserve with Brick Level Backup and most people keep there data in PST files. I have used this problem that occurred at the weekend once again to push for Veritas at the very least. Again I re-itterate, this is not by my choice, I am seeing to get it all changed. Anyway, I don't know what caused the corruption, I blaimed it on Arcserve ;p When I got in late, my car wouldn't start I was late (coincidence!), others had already began work to fix the databases that wouldn't come online, they deleted the e00.log file for some strange reason (even out of the recycle bin :o) I then came in and did my best to get the server back online, I have managed to with minimal loss of data. Unfortunately, I'm the best they have here, and I'm not brilliant myself, but I am making do best with the resources available to me (anyone got any spare HDD's? ;p) Anyway, you didn't even ask me none of that, but thought id put everyone in the picture! But as for the recovery server idea, I guess it would be a good idea for me to get a spare server to use as test recovery huh? But anyway the tape backup jobs only run on weekdays, the server messed up sometime at the weekend, so it is only the weekends emails that are lost, but they obviously weren't backed up! -Original Message- From: Andy David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 30 September 2003 18:54 To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Re: Repairing individual mailboxes Have you tried restoring to a recovery server with another backup to see if you can grab the mailboxes that way? What caused the initial corruption? - Original Message - From: Neil Doody [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Exchange Discussions [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 1:42 PM Subject: Repairing individual mailboxes I had some database corruption over the weekend, ive recovered from this and the system is working relatively okay. Some mailboxes however seem to have gotten corrupted. If I send a mail to a user with a corrupt mailbox, they go into outlook and there Inbox is empty. I look in the system manager and the email is stuck in the Queue, if I look at the mailboxes view within system manager it shows there are items in the users mailbox. I tried using ExMerge and it runs but extracts no emails. If I delete the users mailbox and recreate it, they work fine, so there is defiantly a problem with there mailbox on the server. Are there any repair tools that can just attempt to repair and get any data from an individual mailbox from with an Exchange Database? _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchangetext_mode=; lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchangetext_mode=; lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchangetext_mode=lang =english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchangetext_mode=lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Repairing individual mailboxes
If Arcserve is the main thing that your having trouble with, why not use NTBackup. Or does your version of Arcserve lockout sharing of tape backup devices? From: Martin Blackstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Exchange Discussions [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Exchange Discussions [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Repairing individual mailboxes Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 11:10:57 -0700 That blows. On the upside, a recovery server can be a simple PC as long as it has enough disk space. -Original Message- From: Neil Doody [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 11:10 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Repairing individual mailboxes Hmm, well the luckily, but maybe in the long run not so luckily, the policy currently employed here is most people have PST's. Now don't taunt me on that, I have submitted multiple justification proposals to have more hard disks, veritas with SIS, everyone on mailboxes with 7 day rollback enabled and Outlook 2003 with cache folders, especially for the 64k sites. Currently the policy is we have arcserve with Brick Level Backup and most people keep there data in PST files. I have used this problem that occurred at the weekend once again to push for Veritas at the very least. Again I re-itterate, this is not by my choice, I am seeing to get it all changed. Anyway, I don't know what caused the corruption, I blaimed it on Arcserve ;p When I got in late, my car wouldn't start I was late (coincidence!), others had already began work to fix the databases that wouldn't come online, they deleted the e00.log file for some strange reason (even out of the recycle bin :o) I then came in and did my best to get the server back online, I have managed to with minimal loss of data. Unfortunately, I'm the best they have here, and I'm not brilliant myself, but I am making do best with the resources available to me (anyone got any spare HDD's? ;p) Anyway, you didn't even ask me none of that, but thought id put everyone in the picture! But as for the recovery server idea, I guess it would be a good idea for me to get a spare server to use as test recovery huh? But anyway the tape backup jobs only run on weekdays, the server messed up sometime at the weekend, so it is only the weekends emails that are lost, but they obviously weren't backed up! -Original Message- From: Andy David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 30 September 2003 18:54 To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Re: Repairing individual mailboxes Have you tried restoring to a recovery server with another backup to see if you can grab the mailboxes that way? What caused the initial corruption? - Original Message - From: Neil Doody [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Exchange Discussions [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 1:42 PM Subject: Repairing individual mailboxes I had some database corruption over the weekend, ive recovered from this and the system is working relatively okay. Some mailboxes however seem to have gotten corrupted. If I send a mail to a user with a corrupt mailbox, they go into outlook and there Inbox is empty. I look in the system manager and the email is stuck in the Queue, if I look at the mailboxes view within system manager it shows there are items in the users mailbox. I tried using ExMerge and it runs but extracts no emails. If I delete the users mailbox and recreate it, they work fine, so there is defiantly a problem with there mailbox on the server. Are there any repair tools that can just attempt to repair and get any data from an individual mailbox from with an Exchange Database? _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchangetext_mode=; lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchangetext_mode=; lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchangetext_mode=lang =english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchangetext_mode=lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Instant message in style with MSN Messenger 6.0. Download
RE: Repairing individual mailboxes
Just another quick question, if you may ;p The peoples whos mailboxes are b0rke, the only way to tell they were was the fact that there were emails in the queue that couldn't be delivered, apart from that everything else checks out. Is there any other way of running an extensive test that will flag email boxes that are having difficulties and unable to have email delivered? When I repaired the database I already run integrity checks and a full offline defrag of the database, which should have essentially created a new database and copied all the defragmented data over, I'm lead to believe atleast! _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchangetext_mode=lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Repairing individual mailboxes
Did you ever run isinteg? -Original Message- From: Neil Doody [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 12:42 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Repairing individual mailboxes I had some database corruption over the weekend, ive recovered from this and the system is working relatively okay. Some mailboxes however seem to have gotten corrupted. If I send a mail to a user with a corrupt mailbox, they go into outlook and there Inbox is empty. I look in the system manager and the email is stuck in the Queue, if I look at the mailboxes view within system manager it shows there are items in the users mailbox. I tried using ExMerge and it runs but extracts no emails. If I delete the users mailbox and recreate it, they work fine, so there is defiantly a problem with there mailbox on the server. Are there any repair tools that can just attempt to repair and get any data from an individual mailbox from with an Exchange Database? _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchangetext_mode=; lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchangetext_mode=lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Repairing individual mailboxes
Yep. -Original Message- From: Michelle Harmon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 30 September 2003 19:23 To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Repairing individual mailboxes Did you ever run isinteg? -Original Message- From: Neil Doody [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 12:42 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Repairing individual mailboxes I had some database corruption over the weekend, ive recovered from this and the system is working relatively okay. Some mailboxes however seem to have gotten corrupted. If I send a mail to a user with a corrupt mailbox, they go into outlook and there Inbox is empty. I look in the system manager and the email is stuck in the Queue, if I look at the mailboxes view within system manager it shows there are items in the users mailbox. I tried using ExMerge and it runs but extracts no emails. If I delete the users mailbox and recreate it, they work fine, so there is defiantly a problem with there mailbox on the server. Are there any repair tools that can just attempt to repair and get any data from an individual mailbox from with an Exchange Database? _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchangetext_mode=; lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchangetext_mode=; lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchangetext_mode=lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Repairing individual mailboxes
Then again, I just ran it once more to be doubley safe, but rather than do alltests I told it just to do mailbox and it found 6 warnings in the folders. After finding there was warnings, I ran it with -fix and its ran another 6 fixes. Strange because I only did all of this last night, it must not have detected some of the problems, or maybe there was a problem during defrag? I am stumped anyway. -Original Message- From: Neil Doody Sent: 30 September 2003 19:23 To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Repairing individual mailboxes Yep. -Original Message- From: Michelle Harmon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 30 September 2003 19:23 To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Repairing individual mailboxes Did you ever run isinteg? -Original Message- From: Neil Doody [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 12:42 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Repairing individual mailboxes I had some database corruption over the weekend, ive recovered from this and the system is working relatively okay. Some mailboxes however seem to have gotten corrupted. If I send a mail to a user with a corrupt mailbox, they go into outlook and there Inbox is empty. I look in the system manager and the email is stuck in the Queue, if I look at the mailboxes view within system manager it shows there are items in the users mailbox. I tried using ExMerge and it runs but extracts no emails. If I delete the users mailbox and recreate it, they work fine, so there is defiantly a problem with there mailbox on the server. Are there any repair tools that can just attempt to repair and get any data from an individual mailbox from with an Exchange Database? _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchangetext_mode=; lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchangetext_mode=; lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchangetext_mode=; lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchangetext_mode=lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Repairing individual mailboxes
Keep running it until it finds nothing. Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP Freelance E-Mail Philosopher Protecting the world from PSTs and Bricked Backups!T -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Neil Doody Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 11:33 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Repairing individual mailboxes Then again, I just ran it once more to be doubley safe, but rather than do alltests I told it just to do mailbox and it found 6 warnings in the folders. After finding there was warnings, I ran it with -fix and its ran another 6 fixes. Strange because I only did all of this last night, it must not have detected some of the problems, or maybe there was a problem during defrag? I am stumped anyway. -Original Message- From: Neil Doody Sent: 30 September 2003 19:23 To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Repairing individual mailboxes Yep. -Original Message- From: Michelle Harmon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 30 September 2003 19:23 To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Repairing individual mailboxes Did you ever run isinteg? -Original Message- From: Neil Doody [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 12:42 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Repairing individual mailboxes I had some database corruption over the weekend, ive recovered from this and the system is working relatively okay. Some mailboxes however seem to have gotten corrupted. If I send a mail to a user with a corrupt mailbox, they go into outlook and there Inbox is empty. I look in the system manager and the email is stuck in the Queue, if I look at the mailboxes view within system manager it shows there are items in the users mailbox. I tried using ExMerge and it runs but extracts no emails. If I delete the users mailbox and recreate it, they work fine, so there is defiantly a problem with there mailbox on the server. Are there any repair tools that can just attempt to repair and get any data from an individual mailbox from with an Exchange Database? _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchangetext_mode=; lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchangetext_mode=; lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchangetext_mode=; lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchangetext_mode=lang =english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchangetext_mode=lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Defrag? I guess the next question is what errors are in the event logs and if this is 5.5, did you re-run the Performance Optimizer. - Original Message - From: Neil Doody [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Exchange Discussions [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 2:33 PM Subject: RE: Repairing individual mailboxes Then again, I just ran it once more to be doubley safe, but rather than do alltests I told it just to do mailbox and it found 6 warnings in the folders. After finding there was warnings, I ran it with -fix and its ran another 6 fixes. Strange because I only did all of this last night, it must not have detected some of the problems, or maybe there was a problem during defrag? I am stumped anyway. -Original Message- From: Neil Doody Sent: 30 September 2003 19:23 To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Repairing individual mailboxes Yep. -Original Message- From: Michelle Harmon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 30 September 2003 19:23 To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Repairing individual mailboxes Did you ever run isinteg? -Original Message- From: Neil Doody [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 12:42 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Repairing individual mailboxes I had some database corruption over the weekend, ive recovered from this and the system is working relatively okay. Some mailboxes however seem to have gotten corrupted. If I send a mail to a user with a corrupt mailbox, they go into outlook and there Inbox is empty. I look in the system manager and the email is stuck in the Queue, if I look at the mailboxes view within system manager it shows there are items in the users mailbox. I tried using ExMerge and it runs but extracts no emails. If I delete the users mailbox and recreate it, they work fine, so there is defiantly a problem with there mailbox on the server. Are there any repair tools that can just attempt to repair and get any data from an individual mailbox from with an Exchange Database? _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchangetext_mode=; lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchangetext_mode=; lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchangetext_mode=; lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchangetext_mode=lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchangetext_mode=lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Repairing individual mailboxes
Ai, ill do that now, but I did do it last night, I ran it, did some things, then just before the defrag ran it once more and there was no errors! Then I continued to do the defrag after. Maybe I should have run it once more after the defrag huh? Ill know for next time ;p -Original Message- From: Ed Crowley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 30 September 2003 19:38 To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Repairing individual mailboxes Keep running it until it finds nothing. Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP Freelance E-Mail Philosopher Protecting the world from PSTs and Bricked Backups!T _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchangetext_mode=lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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I too once had a difficult Is that could restore from any decent backup. Took 3 tries using isinteg until the database ran clean with no errors. All I can suggest is to use the fastest machine you have to run it on. From: Neil Doody [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Exchange Discussions [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Exchange Discussions [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Repairing individual mailboxes Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 19:40:10 +0100 Ai, ill do that now, but I did do it last night, I ran it, did some things, then just before the defrag ran it once more and there was no errors! Then I continued to do the defrag after. Maybe I should have run it once more after the defrag huh? Ill know for next time ;p -Original Message- From: Ed Crowley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 30 September 2003 19:38 To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Repairing individual mailboxes Keep running it until it finds nothing. Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP Freelance E-Mail Philosopher Protecting the world from PSTs and Bricked Backups!T _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchangetext_mode=lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Add MSN 8 Internet Software to your existing Internet access and enjoy patented spam protection and more. Sign up now! http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/byoa _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchangetext_mode=lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Repairing individual mailboxes
It typically takes 3 runs or so to fix everything if it can. - Original Message - From: Neil Doody [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Exchange Discussions [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 2:40 PM Subject: RE: Repairing individual mailboxes Ai, ill do that now, but I did do it last night, I ran it, did some things, then just before the defrag ran it once more and there was no errors! Then I continued to do the defrag after. Maybe I should have run it once more after the defrag huh? Ill know for next time ;p -Original Message- From: Ed Crowley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 30 September 2003 19:38 To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Repairing individual mailboxes Keep running it until it finds nothing. Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP Freelance E-Mail Philosopher Protecting the world from PSTs and Bricked Backups!T _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchangetext_mode=lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchangetext_mode=lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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I do an NTBackup dump of it in addition atm, but even though most people are on PST's it is still leaving me with an unacceptable level of hdd space left, well in my view anyway. As it stands they want to keep the brick level ability to restore individual mailboxes, I think I have persuaded them to buy the exchange agent for Veritas, so we can take advantage of the SIS technology. I could use ExMerge on a schedule to start dumping peoples mailboxes, but I don't want to implement any system that I foresee the chance of running out of resources (hard disk space) so I'm just working with what they are giving me. Arcserve is working, but as we all well know, its crap and besides the fact the data probably can't be restored it causes database corruption. I need these problems anyway to use as additional justification so I can have my ideal setup :) -Original Message- From: Tony Hlabse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 30 September 2003 19:18 To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Repairing individual mailboxes If Arcserve is the main thing that your having trouble with, why not use NTBackup. Or does your version of Arcserve lockout sharing of tape backup devices? _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchangetext_mode=lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Repairing individual mailboxes
I guess that's the main thing they learned in their paper MCSE school - delete that dang E00.log file, those transaction logs are a pain in the ass anyway, just taking up space. Sincerely, Andrey Fyodorov Systems Engineer Messaging and Collaboration Spherion -Original Message- From: Neil Doody [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 2:10 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Repairing individual mailboxes Hmm, well the luckily, but maybe in the long run not so luckily, the policy currently employed here is most people have PST's. Now don't taunt me on that, I have submitted multiple justification proposals to have more hard disks, veritas with SIS, everyone on mailboxes with 7 day rollback enabled and Outlook 2003 with cache folders, especially for the 64k sites. Currently the policy is we have arcserve with Brick Level Backup and most people keep there data in PST files. I have used this problem that occurred at the weekend once again to push for Veritas at the very least. Again I re-itterate, this is not by my choice, I am seeing to get it all changed. Anyway, I don't know what caused the corruption, I blaimed it on Arcserve ;p When I got in late, my car wouldn't start I was late (coincidence!), others had already began work to fix the databases that wouldn't come online, they deleted the e00.log file for some strange reason (even out of the recycle bin :o) I then came in and did my best to get the server back online, I have managed to with minimal loss of data. Unfortunately, I'm the best they have here, and I'm not brilliant myself, but I am making do best with the resources available to me (anyone got any spare HDD's? ;p) Anyway, you didn't even ask me none of that, but thought id put everyone in the picture! But as for the recovery server idea, I guess it would be a good idea for me to get a spare server to use as test recovery huh? But anyway the tape backup jobs only run on weekdays, the server messed up sometime at the weekend, so it is only the weekends emails that are lost, but they obviously weren't backed up! -Original Message- From: Andy David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 30 September 2003 18:54 To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Re: Repairing individual mailboxes Have you tried restoring to a recovery server with another backup to see if you can grab the mailboxes that way? What caused the initial corruption? - Original Message - From: Neil Doody [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Exchange Discussions [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 1:42 PM Subject: Repairing individual mailboxes I had some database corruption over the weekend, ive recovered from this and the system is working relatively okay. Some mailboxes however seem to have gotten corrupted. If I send a mail to a user with a corrupt mailbox, they go into outlook and there Inbox is empty. I look in the system manager and the email is stuck in the Queue, if I look at the mailboxes view within system manager it shows there are items in the users mailbox. I tried using ExMerge and it runs but extracts no emails. If I delete the users mailbox and recreate it, they work fine, so there is defiantly a problem with there mailbox on the server. Are there any repair tools that can just attempt to repair and get any data from an individual mailbox from with an Exchange Database? _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchangetext_mode=; lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchangetext_mode=; lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchangetext_mode=; lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchangetext_mode=lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
