Exchange 2013 - corrupt DB

[neonetman]

We had an unexpected power fail on our Exchange server this morning, and our mailbox databases will no longer mount. I'm currently runing ESEUTIL /p and ESEUTIL /d to try and recover them, however the online guides all mention running ISINTEG after that before mounting. Obviously ISINTEG is now deprecated in Exchange 2013, so I'm not sure where to go next on this recovery.

 

Can anyon please dvise on my best options?

 

Cheer

 

Iain

[mtillbrook]

I've followed this plan in a vague way in the past - it depends on what state your db is in really

 

https://alexvoropaev.jimdo.com/my-articles/exchange/repair-exchange-db-after-dirty-shutdown/

[psydii]

Call Microsoft. Really. Unless the mailboxes are very low stakes. The downtime while you figure out how to do it yourself is not worth it. They will get you up again as fast as possible, and you have the 'insurance' that you called the best people in the business to help you fix it.

 

For £220+VAT it is a bargain.

 

Edited February 6, 2017 by psydii

[mtillbrook]

@neonetman how did you get on with this? I'd be interested to hear!

[neonetman]

Eventually after running a repair through powershell repeatedly the database came back to a mountable state. We then migrated all mailboxes onto a new database.

 

Out of approximately 1500 mailboxes we lost 3 that were too far gone.

[mtillbrook]

Thanks for the update - thats good going to only lose 3 mailboxes out of 1500, well done!