Here is another method to check how much user mailbox data is used by deleted items:
Open Exchange System Manager Drill down to the Storage Group and expand the mailbox database Click on Mailboxes On the View menu select Add/Remove Columns Select the Deleted Items (KB) option from the left window list and add it to the right window list and click OK Then you would add the total from the Mailbox size and the Deleted Items size columns to get the total space used by the client mailboxes. Thanks, Peter Dahl. From: David W. McSpadden [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 3:24 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Exchange 2003 store sizes? David McSpadden Issue Warning 233.38 2,938 FALSE Mailbox Store (03030611N4M055) First Storage Group Gina Lewis Issue Warning 272.91 3,663 FALSE Mailbox Store (03030611N4M055) First Storage Group Trent Qualkinbush Issue Warning 426.76 7,034 FALSE Mailbox Store (03030611N4M055) First Storage Group Stacy Bradfield Issue Warning 452.89 8,645 FALSE Mailbox Store (03030611N4M055) First Storage Group Donna Hasty Issue Warning 583.51 6,149 FALSE Mailbox Store (03030611N4M055) First Storage Group 12,045.27MB 410,305 ----- Original Message ----- From: Michael B. Smith<mailto:[email protected]> To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 2:23 PM Subject: RE: Exchange 2003 store sizes? I'll send you a complete archive from home tonight (and make it available on the blog). From: David W. McSpadden [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 1:43 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Exchange 2003 store sizes? I created a C:\Scripts folder I created a C:\Scripts\Lib folder I copied the WSF file into the Scripts folder I created the 5 vbs files in the Lib folder. I make the correction from the below aspx page. When I run all I get is Expected Statement. ----- Original Message ----- From: Michael B. Smith<mailto:[email protected]> To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 12:12 PM Subject: RE: Exchange 2003 store sizes? http://theessentialexchange.com/blogs/michael/archive/2008/08/07/exchange-disk-space-version-2-1.aspx this includes a report of deleted space used per mailbox. You may need to turn down DIR. But to get the backup working again, regardless, you'll need to bounce the information store service. From: David W. McSpadden [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 11:43 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Exchange 2003 store sizes? 90 days. ----- Original Message ----- From: Michael B. Smith<mailto:[email protected]> To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 11:35 AM Subject: RE: Exchange 2003 store sizes? Then like Peter said - what's your deleted item retention and deleted mailbox retention set to? From: David W. McSpadden [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 11:29 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Exchange 2003 store sizes? 1 store. I will get the path for you. But it is the mailboxes under the admin group, servers, first storage group, mailbox store... ----- Original Message ----- From: Michael B. Smith<mailto:[email protected]> To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 11:14 AM Subject: RE: Exchange 2003 store sizes? Well that one tells you pretty clearly that SOME mailbox(es) is(are) consuming lots of space in the store. Where are you looking in ESM? You only have a single private store, right? From: David W. McSpadden [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 11:09 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Exchange 2003 store sizes? Event Type: Information Event Source: MSExchangeIS Mailbox Store Event Category: General Event ID: 1221 Date: 3/3/2009 Time: 6:00:00 AM User: N/A Computer: 03030611N4M055 Description: The database "First Storage Group\Mailbox Store (03030611N4M055)" has 18 megabytes of free space after online defragmentation has terminated. For more information, click http://www.microsoft.com/contentredirect.asp. For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp. ----- Original Message ----- From: Michael B. Smith<mailto:[email protected]> To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 10:52 AM Subject: RE: Exchange 2003 store sizes? That's for the public store. What's the same event for the private store? From: David W. McSpadden [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 10:46 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Exchange 2003 store sizes? Event Type: Information Event Source: MSExchangeIS Public Store Event Category: General Event ID: 1221 Date: 3/3/2009 Time: 3:22:40 AM User: N/A Computer: 03030611N4M055 Description: The database "First Storage Group\Public Folder Store (03030611N4M055)" has 1 megabytes of free space after online defragmentation has terminated. For more information, click http://www.microsoft.com/contentredirect.asp. For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp. Looks like my DB is full? Exchange 2003 Standard SP2. ----- Original Message ----- From: Michael B. Smith<mailto:[email protected]> To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 10:26 AM Subject: RE: Exchange 2003 store sizes? Well, that generally means you need to find the FIRST ntbackup that failed and look at its logfile and the event log it generated when it failed. The error you mention is caused by a backup not cleaning up after itself. You can clear it by restarting the Information Store service. Every night you should have a ESE online maintenance task that runs and generates a 1221 event that tells you how much white space is in your databases. What did that say? Is this Enterprise or Standard Edition? From: David W. McSpadden [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 10:19 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Exchange 2003 store sizes? I am looking in System Manager at Mailbox sizes and then I am looking at the priv1.edb that is 64 GB's. I don't see the correlation between the two? What gives? Why is the priv1 so big and the mailboxes so small? I am getting this error when the NTBackup runs at night?? 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