Jason Dwyer, Super Sleuth.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Dwyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 4:38 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Urgent Running out of Drive space - Solved
Hi all,
As many of you suggested, some sleuthing was required. What I
discovered is that in the Winnt folder there were thousands of wfv*****
folders. A little further research found that backup exec from veritas was
the cause.
Backup exec has its own virus scanner which I run before backup, as a
secondary scanning method, apparently when it finds a *.cab file that it
doesn't like it copies it to a wfv folder....
voila... some time later, no space.
Thanks again for all your assistance
Regards,
Jason Dwyer
-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Dwyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, 17 January 2002 9:11 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Urgent Running out of Drive space
Thanks for all the great ideas, I will download treehack and do some
sleuthing and let you all know how it goes.
Regards,
Jason Dwyer
-----Original Message-----
From: Dawn R. Ashford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, 17 January 2002 2:53 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Urgent Running out of Drive space
FTP hack was one of the things I thought of pretty quick, and none of us
should be offended to be reminded of security!
In my case it's a "learn as you go" deal. Someone else set up the server,
I've taken basic Admin classes, but most things I'm just on my own to figure
out.
Memory dumps is one I hadn't thought of.
-----Original Message-----
From: Niels Christiansen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 11:16 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Urgent Running out of Drive space
Memory dumps in \winnt?
Hidden directories from a hacker uploading files, using that ftp server you
forgot to disable and that anonymous account you forgot to remove?
(Sorry if I offend you by making these suggestions, but sometimes it takes a
slap in the face to see the forest...)
/\/iels
-----Original Message-----
From: Wayne Hanks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 7:47 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Urgent Running out of Drive space
another thing to check is that your backup software is not writing log files
to c: drive. My guess is the same as William, I suspect your page file is
using most of the space. You may also need to look at your system variables
as temp/tmp may be pointing to c:\temp ?
Just suggestions, but I'm sure the install of Exchange still creates a
directory on C: drive, (c:\exchsvr) that contains a number of files.
When you say the folders only amount to ~1Gb, How did you work this out?
Have you looked at the properties for C: drive to see what the OS reports as
free space? What format is your file system ( FAT, NTFS)?
cheers
Wayne Hanks
Systems Administrator
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Ph 08 9263 1114 fax 08 9325 1086
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Dwyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, 16 January 2002 9:38
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Urgent Running out of Drive space
sorry I meant E drive is 27gb with lots of free space
Regards,
Jason Dwyer
-----Original Message-----
From: Dennis Atherton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, 16 January 2002 12:27 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Urgent Running out of Drive space
You don't show an E:\ drive in your explanation.
Is it "Mapped" to "C:\something-or-other" by any chance??????
-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Dwyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 5:10 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Urgent Running out of Drive space
Hi all,
I have a little problem, my C drive on my exhchange server is down
to 9mb... I am starting to panic...
Setup is as follows
IBM Server NT 4 service pack 6a
Exchange 5.5 sp4
C Drive 4gb only 9mb free
D Drive 27Gb 24gb free
We use backup exec 8.6 with the exchange agent.
I have run the optimiser and according to that everything is on the e drive.
When I look at all the folders on the C drive they only amount to just over
1 gig...
Anyone got any ideas??
Regards,
Jason Dwyer
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