Exchange Crash

Hi all

Our SBS2000 server has gone mad and the exchange services
will not start and I am unable to get them to start. I
have tried service packs and hotfixes but no response and
it now all looks doomed! Is there any way of retriving
the mailboxes from the server?? is it a particular file
that stores all the mail data??
Is the file in program files/exchsrvr/mdbdata/priv1.edb
got anything to do with the mailboxes??

Please tell me it is and it's recoverable??

Mark

franzf
Tue Nov 11 06:36:34 CST 2003

Mark,

There are 4 Exchange database files that you should make backup copies of
Priv1.edb and Priv1.stm (these are the mailbox store database files which
contain all the contents of mailboxes like messages, calendars, contacts,
ect).
Pub1.edb and Pub1.stm (theses are the public folder store database files
which contact the public folders content.

The default location of these 4 files is in C:\Program
FIles\Exchsrvr\Mdbdata.

I would advise saving a copy of the mdbdata folders to a temporary
directory, in case you need to reinstall Exchange.

Franz Foster
Microsoft Technical Support
franzf@online.microsoft.com
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

David
Wed Nov 12 03:14:17 CST 2003

Hi Franz,

Could you have a look at my earlier post starting 'Recovering Exchange Data'
from 10th Nov - same sort of thing but the databases don't seem to want to
play ball :-(

Regards,



David




"Franz Foster[MS]" <franzf@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Mark,
>
> There are 4 Exchange database files that you should make backup copies of
> Priv1.edb and Priv1.stm (these are the mailbox store database files which
> contain all the contents of mailboxes like messages, calendars, contacts,
> ect).
> Pub1.edb and Pub1.stm (theses are the public folder store database files
> which contact the public folders content.
>
> The default location of these 4 files is in C:\Program
> FIles\Exchsrvr\Mdbdata.
>
> I would advise saving a copy of the mdbdata folders to a temporary
> directory, in case you need to reinstall Exchange.
>
> Franz Foster
> Microsoft Technical Support
> franzf@online.microsoft.com
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
rights.
>

Marina
Wed Nov 12 05:17:08 CST 2003

Mark,

Are you doing Exchange aware backups?

Marina

"Mark" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> schreef in bericht
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> Hi all
>
> Our SBS2000 server has gone mad and the exchange services
> will not start and I am unable to get them to start. I
> have tried service packs and hotfixes but no response and
> it now all looks doomed! Is there any way of retriving
> the mailboxes from the server?? is it a particular file
> that stores all the mail data??
> Is the file in program files/exchsrvr/mdbdata/priv1.edb
> got anything to do with the mailboxes??
>
> Please tell me it is and it's recoverable??
>
> Mark