Seems to me you asked these Q's long ago...but here's what I might do. 1.) The Open File agent - Will NOT work its not meant to for this 2.) You must have the exchange agent (which if your attempting BLB's you must have) 3.) Turn off the BLB 4.) Do a normal Backup in BE8.6 without BLB but all other exchange checked..it should run ok 5.) If I need BLB type stuff I would use Exmerge, write the INI file to do ALL the mailboxes and be sure I had enough HD space for all this stuff/pst's. 6.) After having these good backups...etc... I would use Ed's Server move method....(which worked excellent and saved my butt) 7.) On the new server I would never use BLB in the BE8.6...sorry but it has never work reliably for ME... plus the reinforcement from those on this list with more exchange experience then me, confirms BLB=bad it's not what its cracked up to be...great idea..poor execution... 8.) If I continued to have short sited attorneys..etc...I would do the exmerge thing and NOT the BLB's thus I would have a good backup and my semi instant details in a PST, schedule this script one way or another.. 9.) Go out have a beer or sip some port...
2 cents, my way/opinion bill -----Original Message----- From: Karon Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 10:34 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Backing up Exchange 5.5 We're trying to backup one in particular Exchange 5.5 server and we keep getting tons of "corrupt file" errors and we're told that we have a corrupt database. We use Veritas Backup Exec 8.6, we have an Outlook 2002 client loaded on the server because yes, we're doing brick level backups. We cannot get the online defrag to run it runs for a few minutes and then terminates I don't think it's really doing anything because it would take longer if it was. Is there a way to force an online defrag? I have tried over and over to convince my management to NOT do bricklevel backups but to no avail. So, since I'm forced to do them we need a better way to do them if there is a better way. We only back up the IS once a week if that and we've never backed up the pub.edb and priv.edb because you have to stop the services to truly back those files up. I've also tried to convince them to let us take it offline to perform offline defrags which will create new clean databases but in order to do so I'm told it will delete alot of messages any message that it thinks is corrupt and so they don't want to do that. This server is hanging on by a thread. Please help with any suggestions that you have other than "Don't do bricklevel backups". So, is there anything we can do other than rebuilding this server? How do you backup the pub and priv without shutting down the services? We do not use the open file agent it's don't work and never has. Thanks, Karon Miller E-Mail Administrator Blackwell Sanders Peper Martin, LLP [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
