Is that your Priv.edb or Pub.edb that has 369Mb of whitespace? From what your saying 50Gb does seem unusually large.
Simon > -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Zatkalik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, 21 December 2001 9:39 a.m. > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Is the offline defrag my only choice? > > > Event ID 1221 says: > > The database has 369 megabytes of free space after online > defragmentation > has terminated. > > If I understand what you are saying, I would only be freeing > up 369MB of > whitespace by doing an offline defrag? My concern is that I have > approximately 350 regular mailboxes, 50 dl's and 50 cr's, and I can't > believe that I actually have 50GB of mail with 350 mailboxes. > My 2 largest > mailboxes are just barely over a 1GB, and only 20 or so > mailboxes are above > 500MB. If I am missing something here, please feel free to > correct me. > > Thanks, > > Mike Z > > -----Original Message----- > From: Lefkovics, William [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 1:54 PM > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Is the offline defrag my only choice? > > > The online defrag defrags data within the file. It doesn't > change the file > size. > > What does event ID 1221 show in the application event log? > > If the whitespace is significant, then perhaps an offline > defrag would be > appropriate for you. > > William Lefkovics, MCSE, A+ > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Zatkalik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 11:25 AM > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > Subject: Is the offline defrag my only choice? > > > Hello, > > I am running Exchange Enterprise 5.5 SP3 on NT4 Enterprise > Server. Before I > started at this company, the previous Exchange admin wasn't > deleting ANY > mailboxes of old employees, which totaled approximately 11 GB > that could be > deleted. My pub.edb is just about up to 50GB, which takes > almost 9 hours to > backup, and I noticed after deleting roughly 4GB of old > mailboxes, the edb > file was still the same size. I really need to shrink this > edb file, as the > backups, and for that matter, the restore takes way too long. > I am not 100% > certain of the best, or safest, method to complete this > process as I keep > hearing conflicting stories. > > 1. Online defrag will free up the disk space, which is > running nightly, but > it's not clearing up space for me. These people also usually > say that never > run the offline defrag. > 2. Offline defrag is the only method, and they use it on a > regular basis, > meaning once per month/every other month. > > Just looking for some more comments and/or concerns of doing > the offline > defrag, since the nightly online defrag isn't doing anything > to free up > space. > > TIA, > > ~Mike Z > > > > > > 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 > ##################################################################################### Notice of Confidential information The information contained in this electronic mail is CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION and may be LEGALLY PRIVILEGED, intended only for the individual or entity named above. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that the use, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this document is strictly prohibited. If you have received this electronic message in error, please immediately notify us by return or telephone call collect to 07 577 6049) and destroy the original message. Thank you. This e-mail message has been scanned and cleared by MailMarshal www.marshalsoftware.com ##################################################################################### List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
