corrupt mailboxhelp!

itdaddy

hey gurus;

Our Veritas backup (which i hate) failed due to corrupt file
mailbox on Administrator. It had way to many files and eventually got corrupted. so i deleted all the emails out of the
Administrator. but still says Mailbox file corrupt.

wtf do i do now? i

Top of Information Store Inbox and a bunch of garble gook chinese writing

Example:WARNING: "\\MAIL\Microsoft Exchange Mailboxes\Administrator [administrator]Top of Information StoreInboxŒ〰〰〰〰扥㌶㍤㈸改㥢㐲ㄴ㡢敥㤳ㄶ愹㈶摥㍤㜰〰户㈸〸㘳㤷敦㔱㜴攸㔹愶㠱㍢慤挶㘲〰〰〰〰㠱搷〰〰户㈸〸㘳㤷敦㔱㜴攸㔹愶㠱㍢慤挶㘲〰〰〰改〷㙣〰〰Delivery Status Notification (Failure)" is a corrupt file.
This file cannot verify.
WARNING: "\\MAIL\Microsoft Exchange Mailboxes\Administrator [administrator]Top of Information StoreInboxŒ〰〰〰〰扥㌶㍤㈸改㥢㐲ㄴ㡢敥㤳ㄶ愹㈶摥㍤㜰〰户㈸〸㘳㤷敦㔱㜴攸㔹愶㠱㍢慤挶㘲〰〰〰〰㠱搷〰〰户㈸〸㘳㤷敦㔱㜴攸㔹愶㠱㍢慤挶㘲〰〰〰改〷㡣〰〰Delivery Status Notification (Failure)" is a corrupt file.
This file cannot verify.

what do i do now:

i did do a manual database cleanup on Veritas but i think i need to heal this mail box.

help!
thanks buds

agustinchernitsky

How about the mailbox recovery wizard?

If you saved your files... try an exmerge to export the pst... then delete de mailbox account... re create it... import again.

You know, I have lots of problems with Veritas and Exchange!

itdaddy

i will try thanks alot...veritas is very stupid; it fails the entire backup
if it encounters and issues; why not backup what yuo can and then
fail only the issues; wtf!!!!!!!!

thanks will let you knw

itdaddy

hey guru

my mail box file is corrupt not deletd; the recovery wiz doesnt it bring
back from the dead and not revive a corrupted mailbox?

it doesnt come up in Recov Wiz
isnt there a tool to revive a corrupt mailbox.
the mailbox is administrator and running fine just veritas cant backup cause is says corrupt

Smallguy

you can try this

http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/Troubleshooting_and_repairing_mailboxes_and_databases.html

to run the pst recoverry you have ot exmerge the file first though I've never used the OST recovery.

worst case you delete the admin mail box re-create it after the pst recovery is done and then import your recovered PST.

agustinchernitsky

Right! Mailbox recovery was with deleted mailboxes... It's been a while since I last used that!

Well. first see if you can export it using exmerge... Exmerge will not export corrupted messages.

You need the PST to get the pst fix tool from MS office working.

itdaddy

hey guys thanks so much for you help; i did print your recomendations
for later hard issues.

this is what i did

Veritas recommends these manual cleaning steps for their software
Veritas Backup

ERITAS MANUAL MAINT
does auto;but can fail
but can do it manuall
Veritas\BEutility
1. DB consist check
2. Age Database - cleans out
3. **** database backup DB
finished.

i did this

cleaned out the admin folder and rebooted!

i do think only the reboot of mail server and cleaning out
the admin mailbox did the trick per veritas whitepapers
but the above manual clean is recommend oncein a while
when event view shows cleaning problems with DB

thanks this forum rocks!

robert (itdaddy)