You need at least 110% the size of your priv.edb file in order to do the offline defrag. One good (bad?) thing is you can redirect it to another server/workstation if you want to through the switches. I have done many with 5.5 and our timeframe is the Servers go offline at 8:00 p.m. EST (to give the West time to finish business), and are not available until 6:00 a.m., Monday morning. Believe me, sometimes you need all that time.
Geoff....... -----Original Message----- From: Pennell, Ronald B. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 9:57 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Exchange Delete Rich, I've done quite a few under ex.5.5. - The only problem is time. Depending on how fast your server and network are will tell how long it will take. 12 gig database will run close to 2 gig per hr. Also, you'd need temp space of atleast 12 gig during the process as it copies and rewrites the info stor. Under Diaster Recovery Q article it will walk you thru using the offline defrag tool under eseutil & isinteg. The online defrag that generally runs every evening will only get back space from your deleted items folders after they expire. In my case I have it set to 30 days before removing them from the server. Ron -----Original Message----- From: Tener, Richard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 9:36 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Exchange Delete Ronald, Do you ever do a offline defrag and if I do it is there any potential problems that can occur during the process. Thanks Rich -----Original Message----- From: Pennell, Ronald B. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 9:24 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Exchange Delete Whenever you delete users and mailbox's the database is left with blank space (white space) throughout the Information Store. Only way to recoup the space is to run an offline defrag, this will make the white space available for use. Ron -----Original Message----- From: Tener, Richard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 9:20 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Exchange Delete Hello, I have exchange 5.5 Sp4 on Nt 4.0 and I am getting close to running out of room on the second partition where my information store is located. The second partition is 12 gigs in size and there is only 2gig left until it is all used up. My information store is 8.5 gigs and I figured if I get some people to delete email that it would reduce the size on the second partition. The weird thing is that when I delete about 200,000 kb in a inbox I go back to the partition I see no change in size. Does anyone know how exchange uses space, or is there any documentation about this. Thanks Rich _________________________________________________________________ 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]
