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-----Original Message-----
From: Jennifer Gaylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 11:57 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Need help moving Exchange database log files
I need to move the exchange database logging files (edbxxxx and mdbxxxx)
off of my main hard drive as they are filling up the drive and shutting
down the Exchange services. At present I am running Backup Exec with
differential backups and so have turned off Circular logging. This has
also been suggested in some of the reading I have done on exchange. As a
result, more log files are being written in the mdbdata directories.
Ideally, I would like to move these and all other logging files to the d:
drive and I would like to know, should this be done only when there are no
users on the system, will this improve or adversly affect the operation of
the exchange server and will Backup Exec have a problem backing up the
exchange mailboxes if these files are moved in the middle of the day.
An error showed up on Bup Exec yesterday that it could not backup the
Information stores because the log files had been moved or deleted after I
tried to move a users mailbox and import it on to the Exchange server.
This filled up the c: drive (he had 2000 messages) with loging files in
mdbdata and shut down the Exchange services. So I moved the log files to
the d: drive temporarily to get exchange running. If I move them back c:\
will fill up again and down the service.
Also, How can I find out how big the information store is for a particular
user?
What a mess!
Thanks.
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