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date: Mon, 1 May 2006 22:45:23 -0400,
group: microsoft.public.exchange2000.general
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Re: Exchange 2000 Data drive almost full
In news:uDDyokgbGHA.4892@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl,
T.D. Hilton typed:
>> In news:%23%23G72JZbGHA.5104@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl,
>> T.D. Hilton typed:
>>> A client has a server that is running out of storage space. At last
>>> check the M drive has lessthan 2Gig free. In doing some searching I
>>> found an article regarding enabling circular logging however the
>>> drive is still filling up. I need to find a way to free space on
>>> this server but do not know of any other safe way to do this. The
>>> last thing I need is for this box to crash. Any advice on getting
>>> this drive cleaned up? There are a total of 18 users on this
>>> system. one user has a mailbox with 3,457,095kb of data. Perhaps to
>>> have everyone to clean up their mailboxes would help some but it
>>> may niot be enough. Any suggestions are welcome.
>>>
>>> Troy
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>> The M drive is virtual - don't touch anything in there.
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>> I probably wouldn't enable circular logging - but you do need to
>> make sure you are doing proper online backups of Exchange....using
>> NTBackup or other Exchange-aware backup software with the
>> appropriate agents. Do not use mailbox level backup. An online
>> backup should purge your committed transaction logs.
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>> Re mailbox sizes - well, of course that makes a difference. You
>> really ought to implement mailbox quotas - for all users - even if
>> some of them are set up with exceptions so they can have larger
>> mailboxes. Does the user with the
>> 3.5GB mailbox even know what's in there? I'd doubt it.
>>
>> You can also move your databases & logs to another disk/volume, if
>> you are not nearing the 16GB Exchange database limit but are running
>> low on disk space.
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> Sorry, I should've said the E: drive. I realise the M drive is
> virtual.
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> I'd rather not have circular logging enabled but it was set to clean
> up the drive a bit.
Should not be needed if you're doing your backups right - the transaction
logs should be purged nightly if so...
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> I am doing nightly backps using BackupExec w/
> Exchange module.
Make sure you're doing *online* backups of the stores - not
mailbox/brick-level backups. If you must do the latter, do them only in
conjunction with an online store backup....
> I'm also running a backup using NTBackup once a week
> to a Snap drive.
>
> I'll get with the users and have them clean up their accounts as a
> start.
Can't hurt. Quotas are a must, though!
>
> thanks for the advice.
>
You're welcome; hope it's helped.
> Troy
date: Thu, 4 May 2006 13:01:13 -0400
author: Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]
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