How much white space was there before the defrag? -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Yanek Korff Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 12:27 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: disaster debriefing
He followed the KB article, whatever it was. Services were down. I think he followed all the "right" procedures. The temp file was on a network drive that had plenty of room. The defragged temp database exists on the temp drive and is whole. That's how he figures it freed 3.5 gigs. -Yanek. > -----Original Message----- > From: Josefowski, Larry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 2:26 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: disaster debriefing > > > The utility is dangerous in the wrong hands. It can take a > very, very, very > long time to run. It also gets very snitty when you don't > have enough room > on the HD (or network share) to create the temp file that is > part of the > defrag process....Where did he attempt to create the temp > file....on the > same drive that is almost full? > > > And how is he enjoying his time at home these days? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Yanek Korff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 2:16 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: disaster debriefing > > > Ok, so we had a disaster the other day. Co-Worker of mine ran eseutil > against the private IS to free up some disk space. We were at about > 95% capacity on the drive, and it would creep up to about 98% > before the nightly > incrementals, which brought it back down. Now, I'm not positive what > command he ran, but apparently it cleared about 3.5 gigs out > of the IS. > Right before eseutil exited, however, it apparently "hung" > waiting for a > command prompt. > > I'm a little fuzzy as to what happened after this. I think > he tried to > reboot, and then the IS didn't come up -- he got some errors, > looked them up > in the KB to very little avail. So when I got in at 9 the > next morning, > mail was down. He was still there. > > We managed to put humpty dumpty back together again restoring > from the full > backup we made right before starting this procedure. It took several > attempts - he had tried restoring from backup before but > hadn't had any > success. I think the procedure we followed was this: > Shut down all exchange services > Start System Attendant & directory service > Restore DS > Stop System Attendant & directory service > Restart System Attendant > Restore IS > > > Any other combination of services running/not running didn't work out. > We're using Veritas Backup Exec BTW. Well everything's back to the > way it was before we started this whole mess. I know I've seen > discussions about > eseutil on this list before, but I wanted to revisit this and get some > concrete information. > > What did we do wrong? What's the right way to use eseutil to > gain disk > space? I'd appreciate any non-flaming advice, pointers, > docs, etc. I find > the archives non-intuitive -- or maybe I'm looking in the wrong place? > Can't seem to find a good place to type in a search phrase > "eseutil" and > have it return relevant data (I'm here: http://www.swynk.com) > > -Yanek. > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
