Exchange 2013 Problems

[pritchardavid]

Hi there, hopefully you can help here

 

We have had a lot of corrupted mailboxes (Can't search and keep going into quarantine)

 

So I migrated some mailboxes to another database, so I could delete the that database. We are on Standard and we was already using the max of five databases. That bit all went fine.

 

I then made the new database and started to migrate 150 mailboxes, this was still working fine when I left work on the Thursday. Came back on the Friday and found it had failed migration, it had moved 85 mailbox other through.

 

I found out that the server only hard drive only had about 7gb left, I'm assuming that's why it had stopped. All the other databases how circular logging enabled, which I forgot to do on the new database, that's why it ran out of space, would have been fine if that was enabled.

 

Problem this as now left me, is I found the database un-mounted and will not mount.

 

Any suggestions?

[FN-GM]

If the database you are moving the mailboxes from is on the same disk you could defrag it. That would free up the unused space on the DB. However you will need to unmount the database to do it, resulting in downtime.

[pritchardavid]

ah never mind, all fixed

 

Seems when the mailboxes was moving the mail log header file got corrupted because the hard drive space so it would write any information it needed to that file. So managed to repair the database move all the logs, and it just recreated this file.

 

Thanks FN-GM for your help anyway.