The Exchange 2003 Move Mailbox Wizard (recommended) will report to you in the GUI about failures, and you can set failure thresholds of when to stop the move, so you should have a pretty good indication of any problems.
I would skip the Exmerge, as it will delay your move and you need to get this done as quickly as possible. You'll get all data back from a restore that you'd get back from an Exmerge. If Move Mailbox can't get the data, Exmerge won't either. The size of the databases likely have nothing to do with your failure. Ed Crowley MCSE+I MVP "There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems." -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Neil Doody Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 2:56 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Mailbox corruption It is known there is database corruption within our current exchange 5.5 infrastructure, there is not a lot that can be done about as the databases are over 200GB in size and both eseutil/isinteg keep crashing at 75% (is there a known limit to these tools, I am not aware of one but never had a single database this big before!). The plan to fix the exchange organisation is to move to exchange 2003 on better hardware. The problem with migrating is the risk of losing data when performing the mailbox move process due to items being corrupted. I was wondering about how corruption is treated, its been a while since I've worked with corrupted mailboxes and I cant remember how corrupted folder items are treated, does it skip the entire contents of the folders? I have to include risk mitigation in my plan to migrate, I'm going to use exmerge to take backups of mailboxes before migrating so that I have the mail items in a raw form and I can easily recreate the mailbox, just in case there are any serious problems with the migrated mailbox at a system level. Any tips for damage limitation when migrating mailboxes where you know corruption exists would be muchly appreciated, it's a rare situation and an isinteg would be ideal though it seems will have to settle for second best. Help appreciated as always. Cheers Remploy - 60 years of finding jobs for disabled people http://www.remploy.co.uk http://www.realjobs4realpeople.co.uk ***************************************************************** IMPORTANT NOTICE: This e-mail is confidential, may be legally privileged, and is for the intended recipient only. Access, disclosure, copying, distribution or reliance on any of it by anyone else is prohibited and may be a criminal offence. Please delete if obtained in error and e-mail confirmation to the sender. Remploy has taken reasonable precautions to ensure that any attachment to this email has been scanned for viruses. However, we cannot accept liability for any damage sustained as a result of software viruses and recommend that you carry out your own virus checks before opening any attachments attached to this email. No one other than a properly authorised person made known to you in writing can create a binding obligation on behalf of Remploy by virtue of this email or any other means. *************************************************************** _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/read/?forum=exchange To subscribe: http://e-newsletters.internet.com/discussionlists.html/ To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with. _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/read/?forum=exchange To subscribe: http://e-newsletters.internet.com/discussionlists.html/ To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with.
