Exchange 2000 Full Backup Lof Files Not Purging   

The title is the crux of my issue!

I've recently started a new job and have been given the task of fixing
the email backup. I discovered yesterday that the previous admin
(bless his cotton socks) had a vbscript that was deleting all files
older than 5 days from the transaction log folder for the storage
group.... ick! This has been disabled, but I now have to fix this
mess.

The problem we have is that BackupExec 9.1, despite being set to do a
full backup with reset archive bit has never registered a successful
backup in 2 years on the Exchange server. As a result the log files
have not been purged. I have completed a Full NTBackup of the Storage
Group but the log files have not been purged. I have tried this twice.

I have displayed the output of eseutil /mk E00.chk:

Microsoft(R) Exchange Server(TM) Database Utilities
Version 6.0
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation 1991-2000.  All Rights Reserved.

Initiating FILE DUMP mode...
      Checkpoint file: E00.chk
      LastFullBackupCheckpoint: (0x0,0,0)
      Checkpoint: (0x36694,1500,0)
      FullBackup: (0x3668E,8,16)
      FullBackup time: 03/07/2007 11:13:25 -- (My MANUAL NTBACKUP)
      IncBackup: (0x0,0,0)
      IncBackup time: 00/00/1900 00:00:00
      Signature: Create time:05/05/2004 17:59:22 Rand:1072951
Computer:
      Env
(CircLog,Session,Opentbl,VerPage,Cursors,LogBufs,LogFile,Buffers)
          (    off,    252,  12600,   1740,  12600,    128,  10240,
219726)
Operation completed successfully in 1.15 seconds.

The problem is I have 11.5Gb (and growing) of transaction logs, some
of which date back to 2005 - although these are few and far between,
the majority of log files form the last two years have been deleted
using the vbscript.

Has anyone got an ideas as to how I might fix this?! I don't want to
start deleteing log files... i know what this can do; however my
understanding of this tells me I could remove (as in move backup and
then delete) the log files previous to Checkpoint: (0x36694,1500,0) is
this correct?

Many thanks,

-Chris

date: 7 Mar 2007 03:55:10 -0800   author:   cbtg2006