Fellow exchange admins\engineers\gurus, Does anyone have any suggestions for this situation?
Config: Exchange 5.5 SP4 WinNT 4.0 SP6 Priv.edb = 45GB Deleted Item Cache = 11.5 GB Deleted Item retention was 7 days, but in an effort to fix this I set it to 3 days to see if it would make a difference. The DIC (ok..I can see the jokes coming, but hey.it's Friday) was 15 GB and after the change it shrunk to 11.5 GB after a couple days. Whitespace = Event ID's 1221 state that on average there is 2GB of whitespace When I look at the mailbox sizes through Exchange Admin and do a dump to CSV it totals out to be about 7 GB, yet the Priv is 45 GB. Backups are taking extremely long and I wanted to see if anyone had a suggestions as to what, if any, the problem could be here. We have done a number of IS compresses and only gotten about 2-4 GB of space (no surprise because of the reported whitespace). But with what Exchange Admin is reporting I am concerned. Thanks for any suggestions and for those in the states..have a good relaxing holiday. Best regards, Steve _________________________________________________________________ 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]

