Thanks for the vote of confidence. I planned on using PerfWiz to make the move, circular logging is Not enabled and I schedule a full backup every night. I missed one day of backing up due to a failed tape causing the drive to fill. I don't have much room for error because of the small partition.
Thanks, Skip Taylor, MCSE Network Administrator Jordan, Jones, & Goulding -----Original Message----- From: Leeann McCallum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 2:44 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: MDBDATA Log Files Good point. I forgot about perfwiz. Call me paranoid, but I'd still do a full backup before running perfwiz. -----Original Message----- From: Soysal, Serdar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 17 January 2002 8:42 a.m. To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: MDBDATA Log Files If you use perfwiz to move them, it will be ok [1]. Especially since when perfwiz shuts down Exchange services to run, all logs will be committed to the database anyways. But yes, a backup ASAP is in good order. I don't recommend deleting the logfiles until a good backup [2]. S. [1] I give Skip enough credit to assume that when he meant "move the logfiles" he was indeed talking about PerfWiz. [2] Unless Skip is using circular logging [3], in which case it doesn't really matter. [3] *GASP* -----Original Message----- From: Leeann McCallum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 2:31 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: MDBDATA Log Files I wouldn't move them. Exchange expects to find them in the place they are. Get a full backup done asap. Do it now -----Original Message----- From: Taylor, Skip [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 17 January 2002 8:30 a.m. To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: MDBDATA Log Files I do a full backup every night but had a bad tape so the log files did not get deleted and the server came to a halt. I only have a 2gb partition for these files. I'll see about moving them to a different partition. I just did not know what was considered normal. Thanks to all who replied, Skip Taylor, MCSE Network Administrator Jordan, Jones, & Goulding -----Original Message----- From: Lefkovics, William [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 1:26 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: MDBDATA Log Files 5-10 minutes? That's terrible! It should be every 12 minutes! Those are transaction logs. They are created as email traffic is created. Someone sends that 100MB mpeg of Scharff in a pink dress (you know the one!) then the transaction logs will be created a little faster than that... William -----Original Message----- From: Skip Taylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 10:21 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: MDBDATA Log Files How often should Exchange be writing MDBDATA log files? Our Exchange server appears to write a new 5mb log file every 5 to 10 minutes. I searched the FAQs and Archives but did find an answer. Here's our system. 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