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Priv.edb recovery with 4500 log files? - 8.May2006 12:04:08 PM

omerritt

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Hi everybody - I think I know what the answer will be to this, but I will ask the question anyway!

I have a customer whose server died (Exchange 2000 SP3) with no backups whatsoever - what I do have is just over 4500 transaction logs spanning three years of server use starting from E000001.log. However, eseutil reports that 10 files are corrupt and unusable and one has a log version mismatch. This is of course, file number 30 so the recovery fails almost immediately and I can only retrive about 2 weeks worth of mails.

My question - is there any way to selectively play back certain logs, or a utility to read individual log files. Would MS PSS be able to so anything to help as the customer would probably swallow the cost if it meant recovering 3 years of lost email!

Thanks

Oli

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RE: Priv.edb recovery with 4500 log files? - 14.May2006 4:18:40 PM

pjhutch

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Have you tried using the ESEUTIL to recover mail and check consistency, it might then be possible to recover most of the mail otherwise its a lost cause...

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