I was asked that at the Boston MEC in 98 onstage. Up there with me was Joseph Pagano, author of the Disaster Recovery Whitepaper, and Laurion Burchall, the developer for the JET database. I handed the question over to Laurion and he said it's only necessary if you have deleted a lot of data and want to recover the white space. Same applies to 2K.
-----Original Message----- From: Clishe, Jason [mailto:JClishe@;sequoianet.com] Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 10:54 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Scheduled offline defrags? Does anyone perform regular offline defrags of your Exchange 2000 database(s)? I've heard/read conflicting reports about this; I know people that like to do it on a quarterly basis, and I also know people that say it should only performed after a large amount of mailbox moves or deletions. I could swear that I've seen an MS Q article that said not to perform offline defrags just for the sake of doing it, to only do it after a large amount of moves or deletions, but for the life of me I can't find that article now. Does anyone know the article I'm talking about, or have links to any other resources that discuss this topic? Thanks ____________________________________ Jason Clishe Senior Network Engineer Analysts International, Sequoia Services Group email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Business: (248) 371-3542 Mobile: (248) 891-8780 _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:leave-exchange@;ls.swynk.com 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:leave-exchange@;ls.swynk.com Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
