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Product: | Exchange |
Event ID: | 515 |
Source: | ESE |
Version: | 6.5.7596.0 |
Message: | %1 (%2) %3 Database %4: Page %5 failed verification due to a flush-order dependency mismatch. This page should have flushed before page %6, but the latter page has instead flushed first. Recovery/restore will fail with error %7. If this condition persists then please restore the database from a previous backup. This problem is likely due to faulty hardware “losing” one or more flushes on one or both of these pages sometime in the past. Please contact your hardware vendor for further assistance diagnosing the problem. |
Explanation | |
This Error event indicates that Microsoft® Exchange Server was unable to verify the sequence of the pages in an Exchange Server database. Specifically, this event can be logged during a recovery operation if Exchange identifies that the pages are written out of sequence. If the pages of a database are out of sequence, the recovery or restore process fails. To understand the cause of this event, it is helpful if you understand how transaction log replay works in coordination with the pages of an Exchange Server database. When a recovery operation runs, Exchange first makes sure that the logical page number written on the page is correct. Then Exchange makes sure that the page checksum is good. Changes for a page are associated with a sequence number in the log file. Exchange includes the functionality to detect file-level damage to pages in its databases. The error associated with this event is specified in the description of the event. The following are the most common errors that are associated with file-level damage to an Exchange Server database:
Error -1018 is the most frequently seen error. This indicates that an Exchange Server database has suffered damage at the file system level. Almost always, you will find the root cause for a -1018 error in one of the underlying systems that Exchange depends on, not in Exchange Server code itself. There are very few exceptions to this rule. The exceptions to date have been with regard to Exchange reporting a -1018 condition, not because Exchange itself causes a -1018 error. Most -1019 and -1022 errors are also caused by a fault in an underlying system. However, you cannot rule out the chance that -1019 and -1022 errors might occur because of an issue unrelated to the file system. For more information about -1018, -1019 and -1022 errors, see following Microsoft Knowledge Base articles: |
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User Action | |
To resolve this event, do one or more of the following:
For information about how the Microsoft Information Technology group (Microsoft IT) recovers from -1018 errors, see Exchange Server Error –1018: How Microsoft IT Recovers Damaged Exchange Databases. |