Re: Backup fails at STM file

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From: Ben Winzenz [Exchange MVP] (ben_winzenz_at_NOSPAMdotmessageonedotcom)
Date: 10/12/04 

Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 09:09:11 -0500

Check your event logs. Do you have any errors listed indicating database
corruption? 1018, 1019, 1022?

Also, how are you backing up the databases? In NTBackup, are you selecting
Microsoft Information Store under the Microsoft Exchange Server selection?
Or are you simply backing up the directories (a la Flat file back up)?

Isinteg is the utility used to check the consistency of the databases.
Eseutil /g will report the integrity of the databases. Remember that you
need to dismount the database in order to run isinteg or eseutil, and they
can take a while to run. Here are a couple of KB article on the usage of
both.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;317014
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;301460 

-- 
Ben Winzenz
Exchange MVP
"sydeshowbob" <sydeshowbob@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:618FD1C5-7013-485A-82D1-5A506868C186@microsoft.com...
> We are having problems with our backups on exchange 2003. we have 8 
> seperate
> stores and just recently we noticed that our tlogs were not being purged. 
> so
> we after some digging and testing (removing and or disabling all anitvirus
> and removing our Netvault backup system).  We used NTbackup and we have 
> about
> 4 of our stores not backing up, it fails when it starts to backup the
> particular sotres STM file.  Any ideas on how to check the integrity of 
> teh
> STM file, or is the problem somewhere else?  Thanks

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