Microsoft KB Archive/182960

= XADM: Using EDBUTIL to Determine Which Logs Have Been Committed =

Article ID: 182960

Article Last Modified on 10/28/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Exchange Server 4.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Exchange Server 5.0 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q182960



SUMMARY
To determine which log files have been committed to the Priv.edb, Pub.edb, or Dir.edb file, you can use the EDBUTIL Utility to view the contents of the Edb.chk file.



MORE INFORMATION
To dump the file to screen, perform an EDBUTIL /MK d:\EXCHSRVR\*\EDB.CHK | MORE where "d" is the drive letter and "*" denotes the appropriate directory (MDBDATA for the information store or DSADATA for the directory).

The following information will be displayed:

Microsoft(R) Exchange Server Database Utilities

Version 5.0

Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation 1991-1996. All Rights Reserved.

Initiating FILE DUMP mode... Checkpoint file: d:\exchsrvr\mdbdata\edb.chk

LastFullBackupCheckpoint (23,2112,6) Checkpoint (45,451,20) FullBackup (23,2112,6) FullBackup time:3/6/1998 12:35:44 IncBackup (0,0,0) IncBackup time:0/0/1900 0:0:0 Signature: Create time:2/27/1998 13:52:33 Rand:24842 Computer: Env (Session, Opentbl, VerPage, Cursors, LogBufs, LogFile, Buffers) (    68,    3400,    1440,    3400,      84,   10240,    2400)

Operation completed successfully in 0.594 seconds.

Take the first number (A) in the parentheses (A,B,C) for the Checkpoint field and convert it to hexadecimal. The hex number will be the file name of the first uncommitted log for the appropriate set of logfiles.

Example:

Checkpoint (45,451,20) = EDB0002D.LOG

This syntax applies for most other fields in the dump (LastFullBackupCheckpoint, FullBackup, IncBackup, and so on).

Additional query words: CHK

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