how long does eseutil /r take?

[Mikey]

My pub.edb is around 6MB, and priv.edb around 1.3G..how
long should eseutil /r /ispub & /ispriv take? I've been
waiting for over two hours.

[I...@ps.com]

It depends on your hardware and the level of corruption and repair. What
version of exchange are you using. I remember reading the eseutil
performance has improved with each new exchange versions.

IK

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[Mikey]

Dual PIII/600, 1GB RAM, IDE drives. ESEUTIL is eating up
about 50% of CPU time, all I see on-screen is the
initial "performing soft recovery....". I ran it
seperately for pub.edb (eseutil /r ..\mdbdata\pub.edb).
The edb file is only 6mb...

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[Amy-Leigh Mack[MSFT]]

eseutil /r replays log files into the databases to make them consistant or
"Clean shutdown). The range of time that it can take to play a log file will
depend somewhat on hardware and specific situations, but it averages to be
about 2-5 minutes per log file.

But why are you running the /r switch with eseutil.

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[Mikey]

Per KB272570...eseutil /mh indicated the files were
inconsistent. I'm assuming the soft recovery isn't
working, as I am still waiting.

My ntbackup, for some reason, isn't backing up the
information store...I check the store under "Microsoft
Exchange"...save the .bks file. Get out of NT b/u, go
back in and load the bks, and the store isn't checked
anymore.

So my choices are limited at the moment...I need to try
everything possible to get this store running.

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[Kirill S. Palagin]

So, what is the problem other than long soft recovery?
Can you start InfoStore? Can you perform online backup?