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Exmerge Causes SBS2003 Crash...

Hi!

Have a MS SBS2003 fully patched server, I have the client running exmerge as an alternate "backup" method (cheap bastards). Every 30 minutes, in the middle of the exmerge which appears to be running fine, the server crashes (hard boot). There is not one log event that can tell me what is going on for windows and exmerge.

Any thoughts - TIA??

Steve

michaelgoldsmith

ExMerge may be coming across a corrupted mailbox and crashing the server before it can write anything to the log files.

Try running ExMerge on batches of 3 -5 users mailboxes to determine the group that might be the issue and then narrow it down from there.

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Philip Elder

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Philip Elder

Next step:
Check the integrity of your partitions:
chkdsk /f on data partitions.
chkdsk /f on OS partition and answer yes to running on next reboot.

Please make sure your backups are good beforehand.

Philip

sdeblock

ASKER

Thanks for the updates fellas - I'm back out at that client soon after this current project! I'll update next week.

sdeblock

ASKER

BTW - these clowns don't want a BACKUP per say - they want to see PST / Archive files - CHEAP CHEAP Bastards!!

michaelgoldsmith

As someone else points out above, the built-in SBS backup is what you should be using to backup your server. It will backup the Exchange mailbox store as well and is "free".

sdeblock

ASKER

I took the edb's offline and ran eseutil /g (database's ok), then ran eseutil /d, priv1.edb was heavily fragmented. Exmerge ran with out issue after that and 10x faster. Thanks for your advice!