Re: HELP, HELP, HELP, PLEASE HELP!!!!!!

From: Mark Arnold [MVP] (mark_at_mvps.org)
Date: 02/03/05 

Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 20:02:57 +0000

On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 11:51:02 -0800, "Tony"
<Tony@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I have an exchange server box, 5.5. with SP3. Norton Antivirus deleted the
>edb.log file and the information store would not restart. somehow, before i
>got to the server, most of the files were removed and the service restarted
>with a new priv.edb and pub.edb.
>
>Problem i have is this; I have two huge priv and pub files - about 1.5 gigs
>each - just sitting there and CEO, CIO, and CFO want all their old emails.
>Dude that claims he does backups, did not do backups this time for some
>strange reason and i have absolutely no kind of backup - just these two
>files. Is there any way i can work with these files and get exchange server
>to accept these files and retrieve the old emails??
>
>Any help, idea, or suggestion, would be greatly appreciated.

You can take it that you're in a disaster recovery situation. See the
5.5 DR guide http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/en/55/help/default.asp
Essentially you can restore the box to alternative hardware and, after
some wrestling, get your stores back up. You will then exmerge the
data out and exmerge it into the new stores.

Do some reading and then come back with more questions on specific
issues.

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