recovery of database   

In the words a wise person, Murphy was an optomist!

I have a client situation which I need assistance with and I am at wits end. 
Here is the situation:

a week ago, I received word from my backup system that a tape had snapped 
during backup, this was the main tape that was used to backup the exchange 
database and mailboxes on Friday due to the size of the database.  When I 
went out to recover the tape, I had an error on the server screen mentioning 
that one of the mirror (software, not hardware due to a poor choice in a 
Dell server I inherited) drives had failed and synchronization could not 
happen.  I shut down the system and found out the primary drive had died. 
Now I had a mirror drive with everything on it that I could not boot up on 
and a dead hard drive.  i replaced the dead drive and reloaded 2000SBS to 
access the information and get the users shared folders online.  Now, with 
the tape still stuck inside its housing and no real way to access it (tape 
is shredded in the housing), I have been trying to figure out how to get the 
priv1.edb/stm to get remounted to the exchange.  I have done an eseutil /p 
(r didn't work), and repaired the corrupted database, and have done a /g for 
integrity with no problems.  When i try to remount the drive, I get an error 
which when I look it up says it would have to be insufficient disk space, of 
which I have 13GB free.  MAPI service is refusing to start and I cannot get 
the EXMERGE to work since it says that the information store is not active 
(which the service is).  The messages are not supremely critical since I 
moved them off of the exchange server to a hosted solution about 8 months 
ago, but there are messages that they do refer to on occasion that they 
would like to be able to access.  I am at wits end and if someone has a clue 
as to how to get an edb to remount, I think it would be great.

Paul Clemmons
PC Networks Inc

date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 13:48:46 -0800   author:   Paul Clemmons

Re: recovery of database   

Third party tools would make this really easy and may be worth it to you as 
a consultant if you run into these situations very often.  Quest or Ontrak 
can read the DB files directly and extract what can be extracted.


"Paul Clemmons"  wrote in message 
news:%237ZLxHdPIHA.4912@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> In the words a wise person, Murphy was an optomist!
>
> I have a client situation which I need assistance with and I am at wits 
> end. Here is the situation:
>
> a week ago, I received word from my backup system that a tape had snapped 
> during backup, this was the main tape that was used to backup the exchange 
> database and mailboxes on Friday due to the size of the database.  When I 
> went out to recover the tape, I had an error on the server screen 
> mentioning that one of the mirror (software, not hardware due to a poor 
> choice in a Dell server I inherited) drives had failed and synchronization 
> could not happen.  I shut down the system and found out the primary drive 
> had died. Now I had a mirror drive with everything on it that I could not 
> boot up on and a dead hard drive.  i replaced the dead drive and reloaded 
> 2000SBS to access the information and get the users shared folders online. 
> Now, with the tape still stuck inside its housing and no real way to 
> access it (tape is shredded in the housing), I have been trying to figure 
> out how to get the priv1.edb/stm to get remounted to the exchange.  I have 
> done an eseutil /p (r didn't work), and repaired the corrupted database, 
> and have done a /g for integrity with no problems.  When i try to remount 
> the drive, I get an error which when I look it up says it would have to be 
> insufficient disk space, of which I have 13GB free.  MAPI service is 
> refusing to start and I cannot get the EXMERGE to work since it says that 
> the information store is not active (which the service is).  The messages 
> are not supremely critical since I moved them off of the exchange server 
> to a hosted solution about 8 months ago, but there are messages that they 
> do refer to on occasion that they would like to be able to access.  I am 
> at wits end and if someone has a clue as to how to get an edb to remount, 
> I think it would be great.
>
> Paul Clemmons
> PC Networks Inc
>

date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 21:59:38 -0800   author:   John Fullbright fjohn@donotspamnetappdotcom