Not that I have seen. From what I know MS Exchange just treats this as space to stuff more stuff into.
Nate Couch EDS Messaging > ---------- > From: Fyodorov, Andrey > Reply To: Exchange Discussions > Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 9:52 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Routine Maintenance > > Does large amount of white space increases chances of corruption? > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Gonzalez, Alex [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 7:39 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Routine Maintenance > > Well we have about 20GB of white space right now. I unfortunately have > to waste the time to do one. > > Alex > -----Original Message----- > From: Fyodorov, Andrey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 4:46 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > > I have had 2GB+ of whitespace > > But I still woudn't waste time on doing an offline defrag > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ben Winzenz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 3:36 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Routine Maintenance > > Why should you do offline backups? What's the reasoning besides just > you should do them? > > The only time that I would do an offline backup is if I was going to do > a major upgrade that required stopping the Exchange services anyway. > Other than that, doing an offline backup is silly. It causes an > unnecessary interruption in uptime. > > As for offline defrag, I've never done one, don't ever plan on doing > one. As long as you've got plenty of storage space, and are within your > backup window, it's just not worth it. The only times that offline > defrags are of any value are if you've made a massive amount of > deletions and want to reclaim the white space (largest amount of > whitespace I remember hearing about was 90gb of whitespace) or if you > are close to the 16gb limit in the Standard edition and need to stall > while you purchase the Enterprise edition. > > > Ben Winzenz > Network Engineer > Gardner & White > (317) 581-1580 ext 418 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Gonzalez, Alex [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Posted At: Monday, July 21, 2003 1:35 PM > Posted To: Exchange (Swynk) > Conversation: Routine Maintenance > Subject: RE: Routine Maintenance > > > You should do offline backups too though. It's just when to do them. > They take a long time. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mellott, Bill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 2:33 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > > me Im no guru like the other people here... > so I let the server do it > Exchange does the defrag itself....so to me Defrag..done...check > Backup... my backup goes every night -full Backup...check done (note NO > BLB!!) > my Exchange awhere AV checks for it's updates every 4 hours...check > done... > > My Exch55sp4 box, NT4Sp6a+post, veritas 8.6, DLT drive, CPQ 1850R It > run's run's and run's.... > > OK once it a great while I reboot it.... > some times I look at my log's..some times I dont.... > > If I had my act together all the time..Id do a test DR once in a > while...or so... > > I try not to fix it if it aint broke... > now where is that hammer...... > > bill > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bridges, Samantha [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 2:26 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: Routine Maintenance > > > Hello All. > > Just curious what kind of maintenance you all do on Exchange and what > kind of schedule for maintenance is best or recommended. > > Is the only maintenance running an Offline Defrag once a month? > > Exchange 5.5 sp4 > Windows 2000 Advanced Server > Outlook 2000/XP clients > > Thanks! > > Samantha > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Web Interface: > http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&; > lang > =english > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Web Interface: > http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&; > lang=english > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Web Interface: > http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&; > lang=english > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Web Interface: > http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&; > lang=english > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Web Interface: > http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&; > lang=english > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Web Interface: > http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&; > lang=english > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Web Interface: > http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&la > ng=english > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
