One way to tell if your window is big enough is to look for multiple events of "starting/finishing online defragmentation." The process will continue to run repeatedly within the window given it.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ed Crowley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2002 10:38 PM Subject: RE: IS Offline defrag- Mystery > 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] > _________________________________________________________________ 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]
