Daniel, have to agree with Al. Depending on the state of these DB's you may have absolute garbage. If the DB shutdown in a dirty state and you don't have logs to replay - problem, means a hard recovery. If a hard recovery works you may only loose a little data. If a hard recover fails you have zero options a far as MS is concerned. There are DR shops out there that specialise in rebuilding these if they make sense.
You can run eseutil and examine the header to check the database state. For a bit of automation I've used a 3rd party tool here before, namelly Recovery Manager for Exchange. Even a demo (i.e. download and eval key) will tell you quite quickly if the db CAN be mounted or not, and if not attemtps to rebuild, but uses same dll's as eseutil in the background. That might save you having to build a full exchange environment to DR in. Failing this - build a pristine AD, add exchange, add a SG with DB names that resemble yours, dismount it, swap your files in, attemp a remount, and if all goes well you'll have a db full of disconnected mailboxes. After reconnection, exmerge is your friend ;) Hope that helps. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mulnick, Al Sent: 15 April 2005 03:18 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Recover exchange database file Have you read the disaster recovery whitepaper about Exchange on Microsoft's site yet? My guess is that you don't have enough of the relevant information, but it's possible you can salvage some of it. There are also utilities out there that might be helpful if you really want that data. Al -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Daniel Kolvik Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 5:49 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] Recover exchange database file Hi, anyone with experience on how to "import" edb files? I had a crash and the only thing i could get out was the edb and stm files. Regards, Daniel List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
