Every night off hours and outside the backup run schedule makes sense to me. Its a low priority task, and will run up to one hour after the scheduled time block.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Garrish, Robert B." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 12:06 PM Subject: RE: Online Defragmentation > Dear Andy, > > Thank you. > > How much consecutive time should I give for this process? What are > your settings (out of curiosity)? > > At the present (some of it will change), I have all 7 days looking > the same, and each day has four hours total, given to this process. There > are two two-hour blocks. The first taking place from 12:01 AM till 1:59 AM. > The second taking place from 11:01 AM till 12:59 PM. > > If I only allocate one hour, and the process starts but does not > finish, will it actually stop until the next selected block of time? I am > led to think so. > > > Rob Garrish > Windows NT Engineer > Wawa Inc. > 610-558-8371 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Andy David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 11:34 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: Re: Online Defragmentation > > > IS Maint Tab > Properties of the Server. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Garrish, Robert B." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 11:27 AM > Subject: Online Defragmentation > > > > Dear DL Members, > > > > Our environment looks like this. > > > > NT Server 4.0 with SP6a > > Exchange 5.5 with SP4 > > > > One of our Exchange Servers is running an Online Defragmentation > > during the business day. During this time, and shortly after, Outlook > 2000 > > Clients hang (hour glass). > > In Event Viewer, I see the following IDs (this list is in numerical > > order). > > > > > > Event ID 179 > > Source = ESE97 > > Category = Online Defragmentation > > Online defragmentation is beginning a full pass on database > > x:\exchsrvr\mdbdata\pub.edb > > > > Event ID 180 > > Source = ESE97 > > Category = Online Defragmentation > > Online defragmentation has completed a full pass on database > > x:\exchsrvr\mdbdata\pub.edb > > > > Event ID 181 > > Source = ESE97 > > Category = Online Defragmentation > > Online defragmentation is resuming its pass on database > > x:\exchsrvr\mdbdata\priv.edb > > > > Event ID 1207 > > Source = MSExchangeIS Private > > Category = General > > The database has 735 megabytes of free space after online > > defragmentation has terminated > > > > Event ID 1221 > > Source = MSExchangeIS Private > > Category = General > > Cleanup of items past retention date for Item Recovery is complete. > > Start 115931 items; 658722 Kbytes > > End 99076 items; 419241 Kbytes > > > > > > How can I turn off the Online Defragmentation, so that it only takes > > place during off hours? > > > > > > Rob Garrish > > Windows NT Engineer > > Wawa Inc. > > 610-558-8371 > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > 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]
