I'm running;
NT 4 spk 3
exchange 5.5 (no spk 2)
MTAcheck.exe has no complaints, ie runs fine and claims that the MTA is
fine.
I've run chkdsk on all the disks and no errors are returned.
Also checked that exchange has permisions to access all of its data stores.
Exchange was running perfectly before the weekend and was broken when I came
in this morning.
Any ideas would be greatly apprecated
Luke
ps. I am loathed to try and install spk 2 whilst exchange is broken.
-- Anthony
Luke Mitchell <holt...@softhome.net> wrote in message
news:37662...@news.apana.org.au...
I ran ISINTEG to check the IS after getting the jet error for the DS.
Luke
Anthony wrote in message ...
>Because I'm receiving the following error;
>Event Id: 1002
>Source: MSExchangeDS
>Type: Error
>Category: Internal Processing
>"The Microsoft Exchange Server database (EDB) could not be initialized and
>returned error -1811. Unrecoverable error, the directory can't continue. "
>
>I ran ISINTEG to check the IS after getting the jet error for the DS.
Yeah, but error -1811 refers to JET_errFileNotFound (4294965485). It's
unlikely that running a repair tool will magically make a file
reappear! If the DIR.EDB is present, and the EDB.CHK is present, and
the EDB.LOG is present, and all the log files are present (no gaps in
the file names) then you may be missing the first (or last) log file.
Tell us what files are in the DSADATA directory (or directories).
What happened to make the original problem disappear: "jet error -1022
(JET_errDiskIO, Disk IO error)"?
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Do not delete the log files without a backup!!!!!
kentc...@my-deja.com wrote in message <7ku22f$ff8$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>...
>I have 2 exchange servers one is running 4.0 & the other 5.5. Things
>are going fine other than the 4.0 server is creating a lot of
>edb00033b.log files in the mdbdata directory.
I hope it created only ONE file by that name!
>Currently I have 159
>edbxxxxx.log files and I want to know if I can delete some of these to
>free up disk space, they are using around 780MB.
The answer is yes, you can -- but you better know what you're doing!
It's much better to make a "normal" on-line backup of Exchange. The
backup program will work with the Exchange System Attendant service to
manage the log files. At the end of the backup the log files that were
committed to the database will be removed from the MDBDATA directory.
Doing this "by hand" requires examining the edb.chk file to know which
log file contains the first uncommitted transaction. And even if you
remove the log files you still wouldn't have a backup of the database.
>My Priv.edb is 835MB
>and my Pub.edb is 23MB. How does the edb.log file roll over each day?
The EDB.LOG file is the currently active log file. When it fills up it
will be renamed and a new edb.log file will be created to take its
place.
>How many do I really need to keep?
You shouldn't be managing the log files. Let the "Exchange aware"
backup program manage that for you. You need to keep as many as are
created between two "normal" on-line backups.
>Also I have been moving mailboxes
>from 4.0 to 5.5 when I am done with mailboxes is there anything special
>I need to do before I eliminate the server running 4.0?
Read these MS KB articles:
Q152959 "XADM: How to Remove the First Exchange Server in a Site"
Q152960 "XADM: Rebuilding the Site Folders in a Site"
Q189286 "XADM: How to Delete a Server from a Site"