All you do is recover white space. I guess if space is that critical for what ever reason, I would have to do it on a regular basis. Sounds like a resource strained server. e.i. No money ----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Chenault" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2002 2:14 PM Subject: Re: IS Offline defrag- Mystery
> Uh.... offline compaction does just fine without online compaction ever > successfully completing. It just takes longer. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Exchange" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2002 10:09 AM > Subject: RE: IS Offline defrag- Mystery > > > If online maintenance does not have a chance to defrag the white space, > offline compaction will not be very effective (as you've witnessed). > Give the online maintenance a chance run, then try it again. Your > results should be better (they were for me). > > -Per > > -----Original Message----- > From: naveen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Posted At: Saturday, February 02, 2002 6:02 PM > Posted To: Exchange > Conversation: IS Offline defrag- Mystery > 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 > > naveen > > Systems Engineer > CxkNetworks Ltd > > _________________________________________________________________ > 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]
