I run SBS2011 at home, primarily so I can host my own email server. This hasn't been without issues and a steep learning curve, but I have learnt lots and I am happy with it. Plus my email is my own property, not that of some big American corporate.
However one thing that always causes issues are power cuts (yes I know, I need a UPS). Normally the SBS server isn't affected too badly, running as a VM it seems quite resilient and I can always revert to the previous days backup if needed.
However last week we had a power cut and now the server is very unhappy. And to top that off the backups of that one specific (and only that one) VM have been failing. So no backups.
Now I have managed to fix this before a while back - I use Outlook for my email so have local copies of them, and last time I had to reinstall SBS I managed to get everything back. But this time the database is corrupted, so:
* I can only use OWA for getting email. ActiveSync is failing and I cannot fix it, so no Outlook, no mobile email, etc.
* I tried to export mailboxes to another local database - this also fails (unable to synchronize manifest)
* I can send email fine from OWA
* I can receive email fine from OWA
So geekzoners, any ideas as what to do to get the emails exported? Ideally I want to export and import at a database level, but that's new to me. I have to do this (I think) since ActiveSync is broken and emails haven't been going to Outlook for about 2 weeks.
Once this is done I will be rebuilding the VM, and getting a UPS ASAP!