Re: Something keeps corrupting log files!

From: Mark Arnold [MVP] (mark_at_mvps.org)
Date: 01/05/05 

Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2005 20:12:20 +0000

On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 09:39:10 -0800, "Vassili"
<Vassili@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>3 weeks ago both public and private store got dismounted. When I tried to
>mount them back got the c1041724 error. Went along with KB 313184, soft
>restore failed, hard restore worked just fine. Well, today it happened again.
>Again soft restore failed, hard restore worked. I cannot seem to find
>anything in the event viewer that would shed any light on what could be doing
>it. The server is backed up nightly via Veritas Backup Exec, including the
>Exchange Server (using the Agent for Exchange Server). Backup Exec is not
>reporting any problems, neither are there any events that would complain
>about being unable to write to disk or of any other hardware errors. There is
>50-60G free space on the drive that hosts the databases and logs at any time.
>I did find the Post-SP3 cumulative patch that I am going to install, is there
>anything else I should look for, perhaps run some utilities, log files?
>
>Here is the configuration:
>Dell PowerEdge 2600 Server
>Windows 2000 Server SP4
>Exchange 2000 Build 6249.4 SP3
>6 Hard drives with 5 arranged as RAID 5 with 1 hotspare
>Backup Exec 8.60 Rev. 3808

1041724 is nice an generic but if something is playing with your logs
then suspect the anti virus first. Are you scanning the directory the
logs are in?

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