Server 2003 Admins opinion needed.

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Hi, thanks for taking the time to read my post.

Currently I get this:

LSASS.EXE - System Error, security accounts manager initialization failed because of the following error: Directory Services cannot start. Error status 0xc00002e1.

The ntuser.dat get corrupted. When running ntdsutil and esentutl /p nothing is repaired. edb.log is corrupt Jet Error -501

Operation terminated with error -1605 - Illegal duplicate key

This is fatal for Active Directory. None of the knowledge base articles or commands repair the directory. Not a problemm i have backups.

I restore the domain. Perfect. After about an hour it crashes again to this. I have replaced the HDD. I have Nod32 Business edition in place.

Could it be a sick exchange that corrupts the AD or the Oracle DB?

Summary: Backups work like a charm. But it still crashes after about an hour. Perhaps run these commands before it crashes? Any suggestions? I have a secondary drive for Data and applications. In windows its NTFS, however in DOS and BootCD's its detected as a swap partition, you know linux type 82. Could the ACL's and group policy break on this and cause the DB failure?
 
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Yes thank you MailMan. That is the specific article I was referring to. Virus Scans turn up negative. Scanned the original drive that was removed.
 
I had this many years ago. If I remember right I couldn't get it "fixed". I think I reinstalled recreated users and "rescued" the exchange DB. Easy to do if you only have a handfull of users.

Sorry I couldn't be any more help. Maybe I'll sleep on it. :o
 
I presume you are running Exchange 2003? If so, you can use Exmerge to pull all the mail out of Exchange and rebuild the server. It is drastic indeed, but rebuilding may be faster than trying to recover every time. I think either a patch damaged something, or NOD damaged that file (possible, has happened before).

Sorry I can't be of more help.
 
You running a VM and done a snaphot lately? I know snapshotting a VM running as a DC will damage the ntds.dit file. Also, are you running exchange and ad on the same box?

One more Q, have you tried re-applying the SP for Srever 2003?
 
Asha'man X said:
I presume you are running Exchange 2003? If so, you can use Exmerge to pull all the mail out of Exchange and rebuild the server. It is drastic indeed, but rebuilding may be faster than trying to recover every time. I think either a patch damaged something, or NOD damaged that file (possible, has happened before).

Sorry I can't be of more help.
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I agree, doing everything over may sound like a long process, but most of the time it is faster than trying to fix it.:o
 
Thanks for the replies. I cloned the main drive with Ghost, as I said. What I did is I removed the other 2 drives drives that were present

Bam! it got passed the Error status 0xc00002e1. AD had lost infomation so i restored the clone without the 2 other drives present.

Bam! Server has been up now for about 7 hours no problems. The only thing running off the one Data drive was Oracle and Pastel. The last drive was a secondary backup drive. Ye backup the backups.

All that ive done is disabled the oracle services running. Pastel works. So something is happenning when Oracle runs if gaffs AD. Fortunately another company handles the oracle stuff.
 
Hang on. Are you running AD, Exchange, Pastel & Oracle on one box? That's 4 databases, 3 different database suppliers. You might be having disk contention issues. How much memory does this machine have? :eek:

Did you say the problems started when you removed the backup of the backup disk?
 
HI MailMan

Its SmallBusinessServer 2003. Although dodgy this worked for about 2 years. Its has 4gb ram.
 
3 days now and counting, no problems. Im going to put it down to a messed up file system on a secondary drive.

Thanks for the input guys.
 
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