I tend to err on the side of caution here. I don't do any defrags unless I absolutely have to (say after a large amount fo deletions or some such, or if MS PSS tells me to). The reason is that I had a bad experience with a defrag for a customer over a year ago where the attachment table became corrupt after the defrag. Not pretty. Now I go by the rule 'if it ain't broke - don't fix it'. I keep an eyeball on the event logs for anything suspicious and if nothing shows up I am a happy camper.
Cheers. Nate Couch EDS Messaging > ---------- > From: Daniel Chenault > Reply To: Exchange Discussions > Sent: Saturday, October 26, 2002 07:33 > 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]
