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I need to rebuild the Exchange database to get clear out corruption - Last Resort Action

Asked by GeoJono in Exchange Email Server, Windows 2003 Server

Tags: Exchange, Server 2003 Enterprise

Time to rebuild the mail database.  I'm hoping to do it this Saturday morning.

Background details are here: http://www.experts-exchange.com/Storage/Misc/Q_24159611.html

Tigermatt mentioned in the other question...

"How many users are running on this server? It's a drastic move, but you might want to consider using Exmerge to export mailboxes to PST files, then delete your mail database and recreate it before re-importing the mailboxes.

"That would give you a clean mail store which will not have any corruption whatsoever.

"Alternatively, if you are running Exchange 2003 Enterprise Edition, you could create a second mailbox store and move mailboxes over, one by one."

I am running Exchange Server 2003 with 116 mailboxes.  I have a couple of questions on the above comment.  If I create a 2nd mailbox store and move mailboxes over one by one, will that remove corruption?  That option sounds safer as I won't need to delete anything until it's all over.  Can you give me some more information on what's involved in that?  Since the backups aren't working completely, I can take the stores offline and back up the .ebd files manually, by copying them to another location.

Thanks for your help!

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