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Exchange 2000

Asked by: dsc18

I have a production Exchange 2000 server that has a corrupt priv1.edb and the store won't stay mounted. i've tried running the eseutil /d and /p along with using the Isinteg -fix all with no success. Since we don't really need any of the mai on this box, I'm looking for the easiest way to start over without reinstalling all of excahnge. I thought I could just rename the priv1.edb and its streaming file, restart exchange, the file recreate themselves but exchange won't work? The store will mount but mail won't flow, the event logs show a bunch of virtual errors point to wrong users acounts/pw's... Any thoughts out there??? remember i don't really care about the mail in the store i just want exchange working again.

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2006-12-03 at 10:44:07ID22080720
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by: MATTHEW_LPosted on 2006-12-03 at 11:02:59ID: 18064051

You would probably want to try removing exchange attributes from all of your accounts and then re-create the mailbox.  This would create it in the new store which you have gotten to mount.  Try that on one user account and see if it works.  You can also just try creating a new user with an exchange mailbox, if their mail works then you are fine to try that, if not you may have other store problems still.

 

by: MATTHEW_LPosted on 2006-12-03 at 11:03:18ID: 18064053

You dont have any backups from a previous state of you information store?

 

by: dsc18Posted on 2006-12-03 at 11:58:35ID: 18064240

We had trend scanmail running against the old DB's, so it wasn't allowing mail to flow. I fixed that and now exchange seems to be working just fine again except .log files of 5,120KB are piling up in the MDBdata dir at a rate of 2 or 3 a minute. This is what caused my whole issue to begin with, these log files pushed the store to its 16GB limit and dismount all the while soaking up all the space on its hard drive... Do you know why the .log files are accumulating, I thought they normally deleted themselves?

 

by: MATTHEW_LPosted on 2006-12-03 at 12:00:29ID: 18064249

They delete themselves only if you have cirucular logging, meaning they are overwritten.  If not they are only deleted when you perform a backup of the exchange infromation store.

 

by: MATTHEW_LPosted on 2006-12-03 at 12:01:48ID: 18064255

Have you started with a new store database or did you get your old store to mount?  Exchange may be replaying transaction logs also, do you have any email in your current store?

 

by: dsc18Posted on 2006-12-03 at 12:15:52ID: 18064326

I started with the new store db, there is email in the new store because I have it Q'd at our ISP if our exchange is down.
I'll look for the circular logging thing and remake our backup scheme for the new store....

 

by: MATTHEW_LPosted on 2006-12-03 at 12:27:47ID: 18064360

Both of those should help you out a bit.

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