Re: Need help urgently please!

John,

Thanks. Yes, I know that I can read them using Outlook express. However, I
need my remote users who are across the country to be able to read them
using Outlook web access. How can get them from the queue into the mailbox
that I've created for them to do that?

We create a full backup every night and the transaction logs are cleared
out. So the transaction logs that are on the bad drive only hold about 10
hours of changes to the db. In this situation, what would be the difference
between what's on the tape and what's in the good db files on the raid
array?

We replicate all of our Public Folders between the two sites, so I'm not
concerned about that data. Its only the mailbox info. We are a sales
organization so all of the remote users are sales people and really need
their communications with their customers from yesterday and today.

Thanks for your help.

John

"John Oliver, Jr. [MVP]" <jcoliverjr@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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For your recovery you will need to restore from tape to recover your
server and transaction logs. The only problem with using the databases
currently on the RAID is that they are missing transanctions from the log
files that are gone now and can only be restored from tape. So best way
to restore is to do a complete Tape restore although I would move the
existing databases off RAID to a temporary location just in case the Tape
backup fails for some reason. For reading emails in the VS queue folder
you can use Outlook Express for .eml files.

--
John Oliver, Jr
MCSE, MCT, CCNA
Exchange MVP 2006
Microsoft Certified Partner

"John Riddle" <thrillsoftathotmaildotcom> wrote in message
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Hello,

Today the C: drive of the sole server in our remote office crashed and we
may not be able to get it back. We have daily backup that was most recent
last night about 5AM. The server they had in that office is a DC with
RAS, DNS and Exchange. There are about 10 exchange mailboxes on that
server. The databases are on a RAID array that should be fine, but the
log files were also on the C: Drive that crashed. Our MX records are set
up to list their server as primary for their domain (they have their own
.com addresses) and our as secondary mail server. So emails since the
crash are piling up in our local server in the queue. The users down
there are frantic to be able to read the emails that they missed all day,
but are in our server. I created a temporary mailbox and have set
forwarding from their mailboxes to the temp "catch all" mailbox. This
works for new mail coming in now, but there are still hundreds of
messages in the queue from before I set up the forwarding. I looked in
the vs 1 queue folder for them to drag into the pickup folder, but there
are no messages in the queue even though there shows hundreds of messages
in the queue on ESM. How can I get these queued messages into the temp
folder quickly so that these users can view via OWA?

Also, can someone suggest the best recovery procedure for rebuilding the
remote server assuming that the server won't recognize the C drive.We're
getting a new drive first thing in the AM and want to know what the best
method assuming the log files are on the bad drive. I'll try to mount it
as a slave drive after rebuilding the server and restoring that way from
the backup. If my databases are good, can I just point to my RAID array
as the location of my databases and try to move the log files to to
over-write the default log files when exchange is freshly installed?

Thanks for any help

John





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