This is said often enough in this forum that I'm not sure whether it's been said in this thread: Be sure you have a large enough schedule window to allow IS maintenance to complete. If you've only allowed one 15-minute block, then it probably isn't enough. For larger stores, that might mean that you should allow it to run all weekend if it needs to, at least once until it's gone entirely through once.
Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP kcCC+I Tech Consultant Compaq Computer Corporation Protecting the world from PSTs and Bricked Backups! -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Exchange Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2002 8:28 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: IS Offline defrag- Mystery ...My original statement should then be modified to just read, "Let online database maintenance run and try it again." (For you, Naveen, this does not indicate any new instructions in regards to my original suggestion, i.e. defrag and emptying the dumpster all happens inside of online maintenance). -Per -----Original Message----- From: Daniel Chenault [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Posted At: Sunday, February 03, 2002 4:14 PM Posted To: Exchange Conversation: IS Offline defrag- Mystery Subject: Re: IS Offline defrag- Mystery Letting online defrag run also allowed the system to run other system-specific housecleaning duties, specifically emptying the dumpster. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Exchange" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2002 3:58 PM Subject: RE: IS Offline defrag- Mystery 'Just talking from experience. I ran into a situation where 3GB was moved off of a db, then it was taken offline to compact...barely any space was recovered. Remounted it, let online defrag run, took it offline again and compacted it - got the 3GB back. This was an E2K server.(compaction done on clients request). So... -Per -----Original Message----- From: Daniel Chenault [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Posted At: Sunday, February 03, 2002 1:14 PM Posted To: Exchange Conversation: IS Offline defrag- Mystery 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] _________________________________________________________________ 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]
