BINGO!! Mounted the PF store, told the backup job not to exclude it and then ran the full backup job. Voila! All the transaction log files are gone, with the exception of the one it's using.
Thanks to James Wells for pointing that out. Jim Blunt On 6/6/07, Ed Crowley [MVP] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Are all the log files continuous, or is there a discontinuity in the numbering and date? That is, is there a gap where some logs have been deleted, but a group of older ones are sticky? Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP Time Magazine's Person of the Year! -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Blunt Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 10:39 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Re: Log files not purging... Geni, It was not checked for this server. I checked it and did a backup...same results. I unchecked and did a backup...same results. Thanks though. Jim On 6/5/07, Hawkins, Geni P <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just out of curiosity, is the checkbox on the Limits tab for "do not > delete items permanently until the store has been backed up" checked? > If so, try un-checking it. If it isn't...well, try checking it. See > if that changes things at all. > > That behavior is odd, to say the least, since the store reports a > backup completed. Definitely dig through the backup application's own > logs, see if it reports an incomplete on that particular store. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim > Blunt > Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 4:27 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: Re: Log files not purging... > > Howard, > > Good question...I didn't think to check that. According to the > properties of the store in question...6/5/2007 @ 7:52 AM. And > yet...the log files still remain. > > Jim Blunt > > On 6/4/07, Howard Rappaport <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you open up ESM and go to the database in question, view its > > properties ... when does it show the last full backup being completed? > > > > If it doesn't show what you thought it was, you're probably missing > > something in your backup software / agent. > > > > > > > > On Mon, 4 Jun 2007, Jim Blunt wrote: > > > > > Configuration: > > > - Exchange Servers: Exchange 2003 Native, SP2 on Windows 2003, > SP1 (x2) > > > - Backup Server: Windows Server 2003, SP1 > > > - Backup Software: Symantec Backup Exec for Windows Servers > > > (BEWS), version 11d (version 11.0, rev. 6235) > > > > > > Problem: > > > I have two Exchange servers; one is the mailbox server and has > > > ~1,000 mailboxes. The other one handles all the encryption, > > > inbound/outbound SMTP, etc. On both servers, I am doing nightly > > > FULL Exchange backups and telling it to flush the committed log > > > files. I am not doing brick-level backups on either server. > > > > > > On the mailbox server it works just fine and the only log files on > > > the server are the ones since the last full backup...just like you > > > would expect. However, on the secondary server, it has 7,544 log > > > files, totaling 36.8 GB of space. This is every transaction log > > > file that has been created since the day I put the server into > > > production on 3/4/2007. > > > > > > The backup job is green and says that it's completing just fine, > > > yet > > > > the log files refuse to go away. > > > > > > Any ideas on why this is happening? Can I just delete the > > > transaction logs, up to the last full backup? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Jim > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > > 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. > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > 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. > > _________________________________________________________________ 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. 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