RE: Reclaiming Disk Space

[Ellery July]

If the IS is 6.2 GB you need to add HD space. A couple 9 or 18 gig drives BE with exchange agent and you would not need to do an offline backup and lots of other potential problems would go away. What you are proposing is only a temp solution.  Spend a few hundred and save yourself  or the next admin some future grief. ellery july Technical Lead Northwest Area Foundation 332 Minnesota e-1201 St. Paul, MN 55101 email - [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone - 651-225-3895 fax   - 651-225-7695   -----Original Message----- From: Duncan Arnold [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 8:02 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Reclaiming Disk Space The IS is 6.2Gb.   Exchange services are stopped every night and a full offline backup is taken with Arcserve.   Circular logging is on.   Thanks -----Original Message----- From: Ambrose, Joseph [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 07 September 2001 13:45 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Reclaiming Disk Space Just a few questions….   How big is the IS?   Are you doing full backups?   Is circular logging on or off?   I’m sure there are others…     Joseph Ambrose System and Network Manager The Conference Board Phone : 001-212-339-0443 Fax : 001-212-836-3802 Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit our Award Winning Web Site:  www.conference-board.org   -----Original Message----- From: Duncan Arnold [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 6:42 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Reclaiming Disk Space   Hi,   I have Exchange 5.5 installed on a Dell poweredge 2300,  The server has 2 x 9Gb drives mirrored with two partitions 2Gb and 6.45Gb.  Exchange is installed to the first partition and the mailboxes reside on the second partition.   Ok, the server is continually running out of disk space, so everything shuts down, if I look at the mailbox resources in the Admin tool it reports that the internet mail service mailbox is just short of 1Gb, how do you view, clear this down?    Also I believe that the whitespace can be cleared down from the database but requires 110% of the database size, can I install Exchange to another server with bags of disk space, recover whitespace and move databases back to the original server? (and no I can't move Exchange to the other server permanently!!)     Thanks   Duncan List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm