[ExchangeList] Re: Exchange offline defrag timeframe

  • From: "Michael B. Smith" <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <exchangelist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 14:37:13 -0500

No mailbox settings or delegate permissions are lost.

 

Just one person is inconvenienced at a time (the mailbox being moved). 

 

From: exchangelist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:exchangelist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Danny
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2007 2:20 PM
To: exchangelist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ExchangeList] Re: Exchange offline defrag timeframe

 

Hi Michael,

 

Thanks for your reply. Good question - I am considering a defrag because
users mailboxes grew dramatically and now they are deleting unnecessary
items and relocating attachments to the file server. A dozen GB's or more
will be removed. 

 

If we do move to a different storage group, will any user mailbox settings
or delegate permissions be lost?

 

...D
 

On 11/15/07, Michael B. Smith <swngdnz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: 

The first question I would ask is: why do you want to do a defragment?

 

Will you recover more than 30% of storage space? Have you been advised to by
PSS?

 

If not, then I wouldn't bother. Taking Exchange offline to do a defrag,
without a good reason, is just a waste of time and processor cycles.

 

Besides which, given sufficient disk space, doing a move-mailbox to a new
storage group is MUCH less intrusive.

 

From: exchangelist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:exchangelist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Danny
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2007 12:10 PM 
To: exchangelist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ExchangeList] Exchange offline defrag timeframe 

 

Any idea how long and how much disk space I will need to offline defrag the
following platform?

 

Server: Xeon 3.6Ghz, 4GB RAM, RAID 5 on 4 15K RPM SAS drives

Exchange Server 2003 SP2
Primary Storage Group = 90GB
Secondary Storage Group = 15GB

 

Thanks.

 

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