You might want to look in the Application Log and check for event id 1221 this will tell you how much Whitespace you have in the DB Mark Fugatt Dedicated Supportability Engineer (Exchange) Microsoft Limited Desk: +44 (0)118 909 5630 Mobile: +44 (0)7966 858108 MSN IM: markfu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Blog: http://blogs.technet.com/mfugatt Dedicated to proactively supporting Microsoft's enterprise Customers ________________________________ From: Rich Gallo [mailto:RGallo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: 19 January 2006 19:42 To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] Database Size question Sensitivity: Private http://www.MSExchange.org/ I was comparing the size of my database backups to my mailbox level backups and I found a discrepancy of about 10 Gigs (Database is 35 GB Mailboxes are 25 GB). Is there some kind of overhead to the database that I am missing?? Should I do an offline defrag of the stores? Just curious, nothing earth shattering J Thanks!!! Also, there usually aren't many log files because I do a full backup every night and also each day an Incremental is done every two hours. In other words, I don't believe log files account for the difference. ------------------------------------------------------ List Archives: http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist Exchange <http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist%0bExchange> Newsletters: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/newsletter.asp ------------------------------------------------------ Visit TechGenix.com for more information about our other sites: http://www.techgenix.com ------------------------------------------------------ You <http://www.techgenix.com%0b-------------------------------------------- ----------%0bYou> are currently subscribed to this MSExchange.org Discussion List as: markfu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To <mailto:markfu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx%0bTo> unsubscribe visit http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist Report <http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist%0bReport> abuse to info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.14.21/235 - Release Date: 1/19/2006
