I have MS Exchange 2003 that I just inheirited support for. The server is a HP Raid5 with 203GB total. I am down to 6.4GB free space. When I look at the C:\Program Files\Exchsrvr\MDBDATA, it is using 177GB of space. The 3 .edb files are about 16GB total and the 2 .stm files are about 19GB total and the rest, over 29,500 files, are .log files. I'm a linux guy thrown into the Windows world and it's the Holidays so I'm can't even find support. Anything would be greatly appreciated as I see the server running out of space about next Friday. One support person told me I would have to take the system offline for 2 - 8 days to capture the "whitespace". When I look at the mailboxes, I see about 1.5 GB of deleted space. It is set to purge or whatever it's called in 7 days. My question is...what are those log files and can I do something with them to get space back. Some of them are from 2004. I will give up my Christmas to get something done as that and Thanksgiving are the only days we don't work. Thanks in advance......
Hi, These files are exchange server transaction log files and they should be purged by running a full backup of the information store by an exchange aware backup program (such as ntbackup). Don't remove these files manually. Leif "Bob Engler" skrev i meddelelsen news:CA2708FD-9E5E-48DA-AE3A-8D766B47DB9C@microsoft.com... >I have MS Exchange 2003 that I just inheirited support for. The server is a > HP Raid5 with 203GB total. I am down to 6.4GB free space. When I look at > the > C:\Program Files\Exchsrvr\MDBDATA, it is using 177GB of space. The 3 .edb > files are about 16GB total and the 2 .stm files are about 19GB total and > the > rest, over > 29,500 files, are .log files. I'm a linux guy thrown into the Windows > world > and it's the Holidays so I'm can't even find support. Anything would be > greatly appreciated as I see the server running out of space about next > Friday. One support person told me I would have to take the system offline > for 2 - 8 days to capture the "whitespace". When I look at the mailboxes, > I > see about 1.5 GB of deleted space. It is set to purge or whatever it's > called > in 7 days. > > My question is...what are those log files and can I do something with them > to get space back. Some of them are from 2004. I will give up my Christmas > to > get something done as that and Thanksgiving are the only days we don't > work. > > Thanks in advance......
