Re: Offline backup using NtBackup gives ESE API error - normal?

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Um, yes, but that doesn't answer my question!

We do an offline once per month - as well as an online every day.

On Apr 3, 4:01 pm, "Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
<lanwe...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Alan <bru...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello,

We do a offline backup using NtBackup of a small E2K server on a
scheduled basis. The C: and D: drives plus the System State are
selected and the backup is to disk. Exchange is shut down using net
stop commands then NtBackup is called, all from the same batch file.

Don't stop your Exchange services to run a backup. Run an online backup of
the information stores - this is the correct way to do regular Exchange
backups.





Each time, the backup appears to complete correctly according to the
NtBackup logfile. However, the Application Event Viewer always logs
the following error 3 times in the seconds after Exchange is shutdown
and NtBackup starts:

The ESE API returned Unable to perform the operation. Either you can
not connect to the specified server or the service you are trying to
connect to is not running. from a call to HrESEBackupRestoreNodes()
additional data 'servername'

Is that normal behaviour?

If so, will adding "sleep 30" after Exchange is shutdown solve the
problem?

Thanks,

- Alan.- Hide quoted text -

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