Thanks for the responses. For what it's worth, I found the Q article that I mentioned earlier that actually recommends against performing an offline defrag unless you really need to. Its at:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q186291 Jason > -----Original Message----- > From: Daniel Chenault [mailto:danielc@;dc-resources.net] > Sent: Saturday, October 26, 2002 8:34 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Scheduled offline defrags? > > > 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] > _________________________________________________________________ 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]
