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GWCheck creates the user in
ngwguard.db
, using database
userabc.db
. Even if
ngwguard.db
is damaged, it is unlikely that data is lost.
Case 3 - Missing User Database (user xxx .db)
In this example, a GWCheck is run either against all users on the post office or against one user,
“ABC.” The user’s FID is found, as well as the user’s record in
ngwguard.db
. However, the
user’s database is not found.
Table 34-4
Missing Entry in Userxxx.db
GWCheck takes action depending on what options are selected.
Contents Check: GWCheck deletes all of this user’s messages from the message databases if they
are not referenced by other users.
Structural Rebuild: GWCheck creates a blank user database for this user. Existing messages for
this user are ignored.
Re-create User Database: GWCheck creates a blank user database for this user and populates it
with messages in the message databases that have been sent to or from this user.
WARNING: If a user database has been deleted, do not run a Contents Check until after a Structural
Rebuild or Re-create User Database has been run for that user. For more information, see
Section 27.2, “Performing a Structural Rebuild of a User Database,” on page 387 and Section 27.3,
“Re-creating a User Database,” on page 388 .
34.1.2 Using GWCheck on Windows
You can use GWCheck on any Windows NT/2000/XP workstation.
As an administrator, you can run GWCheck for databases in any post office accessible from the
workstation where GWCheck is installed. The GWCheck program performs all database
maintenance itself, rather than handing off a task to the POA as ConsoleOne
®
would do to perform
database maintenance.
Depending on how GWCheck is installed, users can have a Repair Mailbox item on the GroupWise
Windows client Tools menu that enables them to run GWCheck from the client. If the GWCheck
program is available to users, users can perform database maintenance on their Remote, Caching,
and archive mailboxes, which are not accessible from ConsoleOne.
For the Repair Mailbox item to display on the GroupWise Windows client Tools menu, the
following files must be installed in the GroupWise directory; by default, this is c:\novell\groupwise.
Š gwcheck.exe
WPHOST.DB NGWGUARD.DB FILE SYSTEM
FID abc userabc.db ?
The user is found in the post
office database (
wphost.db
).
The user is found in the guardian
database (
ngwguard.db
).
No user database
(
user xxx .db
) is found in the
ofuser directory.