Do a full backup to a network drive with NTBACKUP. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Allison M. Wittstock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 1:26 PM Subject: Low on disk space
> Hi, > > My server's tape drive broke, and I had to order a new one. In the meantime, > the Log files in \MDBDATA have grown to almost fill up the disk. I am using > Ed Crowley's Never Restore Method, so I wasn't too worried about users losing > emails. > Now that I have the tape drive that I can re-install, the harddisk is almost > full and has only 200MB free. I have a question: Can I safely reboot the > machine without any problems? Or will it complain about not enough disk > space? As a temp backup, should I take the Stores offline and copy the whole > MDBDATA directory to another server? I plan to do a full backup once the > tape drive is installed, and hopefully it will flush the log files. I'm just > worried that maybe the server will not start... > > Thanks, > Allison > > P.S. Exchange 2000 > > _________________________________________________________________ > 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]
