We are running two backups. One is a brick level, where this particular error is coming from and then we are also doing the info store backup seperately.
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Browse All TopicsI have a Windows 2003 environment with Exchange 2003 SP2 running. Last Friday our backups started failed because Backup Exec encountered 5 mailboxes that appears to have corrupt items in them. I am not so sure that they are actually corrupt though.
Backup Exec's job log is indicating that ALL of the Contacts in each of the 5 mailboxes are corrupt and it can't gain access to them to back them up. Below is an example of the several hundred entries in the Backup Exec job log.
Access denied to file Channaile Gordon [cgordon]Top of Information StoreContactsɦ
The item \\SRV\Microsoft Exchange Mailboxes\Channaile Gordon [cgordon]Top of Information StoreContactsɦ
V-79-57344-33928 - Access is denied.
Access denied to file Channaile Gordon [cgordon]Top of Information StoreContactsɦ
The item \\SRV3\Microsoft Exchange Mailboxes\Channaile Gordon [cgordon]Top of Information StoreContactsɦ
V-79-57344-33928 - Access is denied.
Access denied to file Channaile Gordon [cgordon]Top of Information StoreContactsɦ
The item \\SRV3\Microsoft Exchange Mailboxes\Channaile Gordon [cgordon]Top of Information StoreContactsɦ
V-79-57344-33928 - Access is denied.
It appears that all of these contacts are "in use" at the same time. The job is running at night so no user is accessing all of these contacts at one time.
The only new variable is that we recently bought and installed a Shoretel VOIP phone system and installed the Call Manager software on the Exchange Server. All of the users who are listed in the job log as "failed" with the EXCEPTION of ONE, has the Call Manager software installed on their workstations. So it really doesn't point to the call manager as the culprit of this because there is one user who does not have it installed who is also getting flagged in the job log as having corrupt Contacts.
Any thoughts or insight on where to look or how to approach this?
I thought about doing an Offline Defrag on the Exchange database but was worried that if all of these contacts were corrupt, it would delete all the contact records in the database. That is something I don't want to do.
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this is a common problem caused by doing brick level back ups-you should redo the back up jobs and just do the full IS back up-it is microsoft recommended way as well plus you can use the RSG feature to restore individual mailboxes if needed-brick level backups cause problems ,are slower and it is effectively backing up everything twice
The errors do not mean that your database is corrupt.
What it means is that the brick level backup engine cannot read the item. There is usually nothing wrong with the item.
As indicated above - you have two choices.
1. Stop doing brick level backups. They are slow, inefficient and close to useless.
2. Continue to use BLBs and get used to the errors. You will see the errors a lot.
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by: poweruser32Posted on 2007-02-08 at 08:45:11ID: 18495071
first qs is obvious-what type of back up are you doing it appears as if you are on the mailbox brick level back up rather than the Full Information Store back up-this causes problems like this