There was an excellent explanation by Ed Woodrick on the topic of compacting the Exchange store back on March 15, 2002 if you'd like to look in the archives.
Unless asked for, I won't repost it. -----Original Message----- From: Couch, Nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 10:58 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Routine Maintenance 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] _________________________________________________________________ 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]
