BTW, it's not really a mystery how much you'll recover. The online maintenance process writes an event to the event log that will report on the amount of whitespace in a DB.
-----Original Message----- From: Daniel Chenault To: Exchange Discussions Sent: 2/2/2002 8:28 PM Subject: Re: IS Offline defrag- Mystery 3. Dumpster storage ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Scharff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2002 6:31 PM Subject: RE: IS Offline defrag- Mystery > Well, a couple of things could account for it. > > 1. Single Instance storage > 2. Mew mail came in that replaced the deleted mail over the 15 day deleted > items retention period. > > If you have mailbox limits in place why bother with this type of > housekeeping? I haven't run an offline defrag to recover whitespace more > than a half dozen times total and I've touched a number of Exchange servers > in that time. > > -----Original Message----- > From: naveen > To: Exchange Discussions > Sent: 2/2/2002 6:02 PM > Subject: IS Offline defrag- Mystery > > Hi, > After cleanning up 2 GB of mails from a database of 7.7 GB(through > Outlook 2000)and defrag the IS-PRIV offline ,we could only recover upto > 500 MB.Last time(4 months ago) when we did similar excercise we could > recover upto 2GB of space from 6.2 GB database. > > We are running Exchange 5.5 (Standard Edition) with SP4 on Win2K > Retention Period is 15 days. > > Can anyone help us in solving this mystery. > > thanks in advance > _________________________________________________________________ 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]
