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Migration from sbs 2000 to sbs 2003 / exchange backup problems

Hi - Im Getting ready to migrate from sbs 2000 to sbs 2003 on new hardware but I am having a problem.  I can not get a good backup and the transaction logs are growing.  Here is the error I am getting using NTBackup (Portions of "\Mailbox Store (server)" cannot be read.  The backed up data is corrupt or incomplete. This file will not restore correctly).  I guess my question is if I can't get a good backup should I just export everything to pst files and start from scratch or is there a way to resolve this problem???  There are about 15 users so recreating profiles won't be too bad if I had to export the mailboxes and public folders...
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Thanks - I will try this tonight.
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Sorry for the delay, I finally had time to run an offline defrag.  Well the defrag never finished, it ran for 15 hours and it was only at 10%.  We had to stop it so the store could be mounted.  I guess our only solution is to use exmerge, create pst files, recreate the domain and desktop profiles???
It sounds like that store is pretty messed up. I would start again from PST's.
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I agree, thanks to you both