Perfect
hello first of all thank you for this,
I was doing a vmdk shrinking in vmware datastore as my previouse colleagues used C: drive as a thick provisioned.
I moved mailboxes DB,PF DB to another drive and and separated transaction logs too . taken a full backup but I forgot to add the newely created PF_DB drive to it.
after full backup I shrinked the vmdk file and it worked fine when i used the third party tool to shrink the C: drive it screwed the OS :P hahahaha.
so restored bakup within night it came back online mailboxes didnt had issue. PF was down
I restored the PF database from day before backup and ran this glorious command it fixed :) :)
but after I received a clean shutdown also it was saying =-1209 error which means traansactions logs was not found. but waited 15 minuets. test again mounting it worked :)
thank you so much , I know this pain working as a senior network engineer for consultancy and my client was financial MGMT company.
thank you again have a nice day