Hi all,
I have 2 Exchange 2013 CU7 servers : EX01 & EX02 in Database Availability Group : DAG01, 1 Mailbox Database : DB01 (about 600GB - mount active on EX01) and I get many problems with Add/Update Mailbox Database Copy.
First, I get error when trying to add a mailbox database passive copy of DB01 on EX02 :
The seeding operation failed. Error: An error occurred while performing the seed operation. Error: Failed to notify source server 'EX01.domain.com' about the local truncation point. Hresult: 0xc8000713. Error: Unable to find the file. [Database: DB01, Server: EX02.domain.com]
After searching I found many topic with solution like this :
1.Please dismount the active database first.
2.Please check the database is in the clean shutdown with the help of eseutil tool by using the parameter eseutil /mh "path of the database"
3.Then move all the log files to the separate location.
4.Then mount the database and it will create the fresh log files.
5.Then try to add the passive copy on anyone of your mailbox server in DAG
But I don't understand step 3, Are log files : E00000xxxx.log in Mailbox Database folder ? and move them to ?
How about other files and folder ? .chk , inspector , incseedInspect , IgnoredLogs , AC9xxxxxxx.2.Single
Secondly, my top priority is minimizing mail server downtime and I also attempt to split DB01 into 2 or 3 Databases in future to decrease mailbox databases size so I think "why don't I create 2 other mailbox database then move mailboxes from DB01 to 2 new ones ?"
After creating "DBTest" active mount on EX01 and add its passive copy in on EX02 :
Get-MailboxDatabaseCopyStatus
Name Status CopyQueueLength ReplayQueueLength LastInspectedLogTime
ContentIndexState
DBTest/EX01 Mounted 0
0
Healthy
DBTest/EX02 Healthy 0
0 3/7/2016 9:21:15 PM
Unknown
I tried to make "DBTest/EX02" ContentIndexState become Healthy but fail :
Update-MailboxDatabaseCopy -Identity "DBTest\EX02" -CatalogOnly
Confirm
Are you sure you want to perform this action?
Seeding database copy "DBTest\EX02".
[Y] Yes [A] Yes to All [N] No [L] No to All [?] Help (default is "Y"): Y
Confirm
The mailbox database copy 'DBTest\EX02' has failed to update from server . Do you want to clean up that update request now? Seeding cannot be requested for the same database copy until the failed request has been cleaned up by the server, which should automatically
happen within 15 minutes.
[Y] Yes [A] Yes to All [N] No [L] No to All [?] Help (default is "Y"): Y
WARNING: Seeding of content index catalog for database 'DBTest' failed. Please verify that the Microsoft Search (Exchange) and the Host Controller service for Exchange services are running and try the operation again.
Error: There was no endpoint listening at
net.tcp://localhost:3863/Management/SeedingAgent-170C7D59-F509-4DA5-9488-10BF7D9DA77D12/Single that could accept the message. This is often caused by an incorrect address or SOAP action. See InnerException, if present, for more
details..
Then I dismount 'DBTest\EX01' and suspend 'DBTest\EX02' and scan them with eseutil.exe :
'DBTest\EX01' state : Clean Shutdown
'DBTest\EX02' state : Dirty Shutdown (Why ? It has just created :( )
I repaired 'DBTest\EX02' with eseutil ==> its state become "Clean Shutdown" ==> Resume 'DBTest\EX02' ==> I still cannot make "DBTest/EX02" ContentIndexState become Healthy ==> I suspend 'DBTest\EX02' again and check it with eseutil
==> Dirty Shutdown again
'DBTest\EX01' state is always Clean Shutdown how many times I dismount and check it with eseutil.
Summary :
1. I need exist DB01 is replicated between EX01 & EX02 but Add/Update Mailbox Database copy fail with error 0xc8000713 so I attempt to fix it and I need to know steps exactly.
2. Adding new mailbox database copy for testing doesn't work correctly since passive copy has ContentIndexState Unknown and .edb file state Dirty Shutdown.
Please give me some advice, thank you very much.