[msexchange] Re: Lost Attachments

Hi Robert.

just to point out that I have always been adviced to
revert to backups rather than attempt to repair a
damaged priv.ebd. 

I have heard it said that the result of repair can be
extremely unpredictable. I think your best chance
forward is to restore from backup and replay logs.


Cheers

dave
--- Robert Jackson <rab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> We've got quite a serious problem. Over the last
> while we've had all sorts
> of problems with Exchange Server 5.5 (SP4) running
> on a Windows NT
> 4.0 (SP6) Server.
> 
> To cut a long story short we've finally got round to
> doing a repair on the
> Private Store (piv.edb) database file. After running
> the repair what we are
> now finding is that most of our attachments are
> missing. There are some
> still remaining but this seems a very small number.
> We had also run an
> Exchange Defrag and as you would expect the overall
> Exchange Database
> size has been reduced. However if we go into the
> mailbox resource within
> Exchange Server Administration we find that all the
> users have what looks
> like their original figures in terms of space used,
> number of items etc.
> 
> Am I right in thinking that what we have lost is the
> pointers to the 
> attachments and that the original attachments are
> still held within the
> priv.edb file? If this is the case can we repair the
> pointers so that the
> attachments can be viewed again? Or are we
> completely knackered and 
> we'll have to revert to backup?
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Rab.
>
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