Sometimes
the Exchange server hiccups or your antivirus software decided that one
of the precious transaction log file contains a Netsky virus. Then end
result is the same. Exchange store is dismounted. Remounting it only
says a certain log file is missing. What to do? There are plenty of
websites showing the solution. This serves as my bookmark.
1. Check if the database is a clean shutdown mode.
Run eseutil /mh . This 10 second job will most probably say something in the top 10 lines "Dirty Shutdown".
2. Run Recovery to force a clean shutdown. Note this will replay logs.
eseutil /r e00 will perform a soft recovery. If this is still not successful, a decision has to be made.
a. Restore from tape. Recommended
b. Repair database using eseutil /p
a. Restore the database from tape. This should be from an online
backup. Restore will take about 2 to 3 hours. Replay the logs by
running eseutil /cc
b. Repairing the database using eseutil. This can take up to several
hours. For example a 17GB database can take up 5 hours for the repair
job, another 4 hours to defrag and 4 hours to do an integrity check.
Note the repair job appears to hang at "deleting unicode fixup table"
can take a few hours. Monitor using Task Manager.
