Reseed Mailbox database

I have had several failed backups using Symantec Endpoint protection of my exchange server, currently the issue stems from the transaction logs being corrupt because the database log files were completely cleared to make sure the exchange server continued
to have space and wouldn't crash.  The current solution I would like to try is to do a reseed of the mailbox database on the server that is causing the issue, however I want to know if anything can go wrong from running the command Update-MailboxDatabaseCopy
-Identity DB1\MBX1.

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