Help!

twistedfaith · 22 Nov 2007 at 14:36

I'm having some serious problems with our exchange 2000 server at the moment, for some reason the backups haven't been running properly and the exchange logs haven't flushed...so we're down to our last 800mb! The report I got from the last backup I ran said this:

Backup Status
Operation: Backup
Active backup destination: File
Media name: "Media created 22/11/2007 at 10:04"

Backup of "SIP2\Microsoft Information Store\First Storage Group"
Backup set #1 on media #1
Backup description: "Set created 22/11/2007 at 10:04"
Backup Type: Normal

Backup started on 22/11/2007 at 10:05.
WARNING: Portions of "\Mailbox Store (SIP2)" cannot be read. The backed up data is corrupt or incomplete.
This file will not restore correctly.
Backup completed on 22/11/2007 at 13:08.
Directories: 4
Files: 26
Bytes: 9,631,796,016
Time: 3 hours, 3 minutes, and 2 seconds

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Is there any way I can find out why the backup is corrupt? I did hear of a debugging mode that will help me out but I don't know how to activate it. Any help would be much appreciated and I will update the post with more info as I have it!

Thanks

LeeG · 22 Nov 2007 at 16:53

Hi,

What backup software are you using? We use Veritas on our servers, but will try and help if possible.

You could defrag the exchange database, preferably offline. To do this properly though, you will need enough drive space to create another copy. I will explain further if needed.

twistedfaith · 22 Nov 2007 at 17:24

We use NTBackup - no other software...I don't think it will be possible to make a copy of the database unless its possible to copy it to an external hard drive...but if you could let me know how to do all that it would be great. I've only had basic maintenance experience...never had to deal with a whole system on my own before!!

twistedfaith · 23 Nov 2007 at 12:13

Phew! Saved....temporarily anyway - enabled circular logging and it has cleared over 48gb of space on the drive. So happy about that, trouble is my backup options are limited now. But that will be sorted after the weekend. Now back to my stress free life lol