There are many options. Eseutil will allow you to redirect the temp files. Or better yet, get a server/pc that has more than the needed amount of space, install windows (doesn't have to be server) Install exchange tools Confirm that eseutil is in the exchsrvr/bin directory Dismount your private store Stop you exchange server services Copy the database files to the new box (think you need the transact files also) Run eseutil on the new box Move the compressed database back over
You are on the right path... all your clean up efforts are good. You will not see the benefits from them until you perform an offline defrag. ---------------------------------------- Rob Weatherly ---------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Learn Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 10:10 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Exchange offline database defragmentation Hi all, Please advice on the following. We have exchange server 2000 std running on windows server 2k with latest service packs. Our database size reached recently to its limit. We followed the steps in ms kb to clean up emails and ran online defragmentation which didn't give us more database space. The database still shows around 16G even we converted some mailboxes to pst and deleted the unused ones and purge them from the database. The problem is with offline defragmentation which seems to be hanged every time we run the eseutil.exe /d. it just stops for a long time because I can see initially temp files created by eseutil.exe increase in size but then when it reaches to 3GB, it just stops and no activity and then have to cancel it. The disk has a 21GB free space available and Ms recommends to have 110% disk space of the exchange database size to run eseutil.exe successfully. Does anyone has any recommendation on this situation? Thanks kashi _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/read/?forum=exchange To subscribe: http://e-newsletters.internet.com/discussionlists.html/ To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with. _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/read/?forum=exchange To subscribe: http://e-newsletters.internet.com/discussionlists.html/ To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with.
