Re: How long should it take an Information Store to start with no edb.chk

From: Ian Edwards (ian.edwards_at_itnetplc.com)
Date: 06/12/04 

Date: 12 Jun 2004 06:56:13 -0700

Thanks for the response.
On this occasion we were not getting a 109 event in the event log.

When we had done this earlier when we had a edb.chk file present we
were getting 109 event messages every few minutes for each log file.
After all these had played in we got the following messages.
Event ID: 1081 Unable to recover the database because error
0xc8000212 occurred after a restore operation.

Event ID: 5000 Unable to initialize the Microsoft Exchange
Information Store service. Error 0xc8000212.

System Event ID: 7024 The Microsoft Exchange Information Store
service terminated with service-specific error 3355443730.

We have since performed another restore of the Information store from
an online backup. (the restore is offline however as we did not start
the information store before restoring). Before the restore we
cleared out the mdbdta folder and have attempted to start the
Information service, having checked we have no edb.chk file. We are
seeing the same behavior - service control "clock" going round. no
error messages. We have disk activity,

CPU is less than 10%. Have looked at the processes. Store.exe is
running but it's CPU is 0% and CPU time is 00:00.

"Kirill S. Palagin" <kpalagin@pleaseno.mail.phxint.ru> wrote in message news:<OKkH4yDUEHA.1260@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl>...
> Each log will take from 1 to 5 minutes to replay, and for each replayed
> log you will get an appropriate event in App Event log. Do you get
> those? What is the CPU usage? Do you see disk activity?
>
> Ian Edwards wrote:
>
> > We've been having problems with our 5.5 server (20 hours in now)
> > Having performed a restore of an offline backup we started the
> > Information Store with no edb.chk.
> > I believe this will go through all the edb.log files and replay what
> > it needs to. I have 26 log files (so 130Mb) and the priv.edb is
> > around 31Gb in size. The information store has been starting up now
> > for over 5 hours. There seems to be activity the service control
> > "clock" is spinning. No errors in the Event logs whilst this happens.
> > I read in article KB 200941 How the Restore in Progress Registry Key
> > works that if the checkpoint file (edb.chk) is missing the server can
> > determine which transactions have been applied but that startup will
> > merely take more time.
> > But how much more time?

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