RE: Any command line switches to run Online defrag?
Have you scheduled a block of time for it to run? Ed Crowley MCSE+I MVP Technical Consultant hp Services There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Karon Miller Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 8:42 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Any command line switches to run Online defrag? Are there any command line switches that I can use to run the online defrag in Exchange 5.5? My online defrag isn't running and if I can just force it to run maybe from a command line prompt and not within Exchange Admin, that would great. Thanks, Karon Miller Blackwell Sanders Peper Martin, LLP _ 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]
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]
RE: Any command line switches to run Online defrag?
Message I just posted was actually in response to Ed Crowley I forgot to post his message. Sorry Have you scheduled a block of time for it to run? Ed Crowley MCSE+I MVP Technical Consultant hp Services There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Karon Miller Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 8:42 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Any command line switches to run Online defrag? Are there any command line switches that I can use to run the online defrag in Exchange 5.5? My online defrag isn't running and if I can just force it to run maybe from a command line prompt and not within Exchange Admin, that would great. Thanks, Karon Miller Blackwell Sanders Peper Martin, LLP _ 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]
Re: Any command line switches to run Online defrag?
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]
RE: Any command line switches to run Online defrag?
Probably nothing needs to be done. You don't see a completion event that tells you the amount of white space? Ed Crowley MCSE+I MVP Technical Consultant hp Services There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Karon Miller Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 7:16 AM To: Exchange Discussions 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]
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]
RE: Any command line switches to run Online defrag?
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]
RE: Any command line switches to run Online defrag?
If server downtime is impossible to arrange with your business, an alternative to an offline defrag or a repair would be to move all mailboxes to another server, shut down the IS, delete everything in mdbdata and then restart the IS with a clean blank priv.edb to which you can move the mailboxes back. This has the advantage that users are only affected whilst their mailbox data is actually being moved. I realise it sounds drastic but at least you are starting with a clean sheet and the move process will help flush out the corrupted mailboxes. You stand a better chance of not losing data than you would with Isinteg or eseutil. Mark n.b. you do lose deleted item retention when you move a mailbox -Original Message- From: Karon Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 22 November 2002 15:37 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] BBCi at http://www.bbc.co.uk/ This e-mail (and any attachments) is confidential and may contain personal views which are not the views of the BBC unless specifically stated. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system, do not use, copy or disclose the information in any way nor act in reliance on it and notify the sender immediately. Please note that the BBC monitors e-mails sent or received. Further communication will signify your consent to this. _ 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]
RE: Any command line switches to run Online defrag?
Ah... More info that would have been helpful upfront. On a Saturday... Install another Exchange box. Move the mailboxes to it. Toast the old priv.edb. Move the mailboxes back. Deinstall the temp Exchange box. -Original Message- From: Karon Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 9:16 AM To: Exchange Discussions 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]
RE: Any command line switches to run Online defrag?
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]
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]
Re: Any command line switches to run Online defrag?
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]
RE: Any command line switches to run Online defrag?
No. Better would be to troubleshoot why it isn't running. What is showing in event viewer? -Original Message- From: Karon Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 10:42 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Any command line switches to run Online defrag? Are there any command line switches that I can use to run the online defrag in Exchange 5.5? My online defrag isn't running and if I can just force it to run maybe from a command line prompt and not within Exchange Admin, that would great. Thanks, Karon Miller Blackwell Sanders Peper Martin, LLP _ 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]
