RE: URGENT - Exch 5.5 info store limit reached!

  • From: Debie Allen <debie2000@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "\[ExchangeList\]" <exchangelist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 09:42:15 -0700 (PDT)

Check the event viewer for Online Defrag info. It will
tell you how much space was left after the last online
defrag. That's the amount of space you would recover
with an offline defrag.

--- "Alex.Mckeown" <Alex.Mckeown@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> I could be wrong but I think that the only way to
> recover disk space from
> the database is to do an OFF-LINE defrag.  That
> means stopping the services
> and running EDBUTIL.  Make sure you check this out
> though because I have
> only run this when doing a test recovery and I
> didn't care if it corrupted
> anything.
> Good luck.
>
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q143233
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrea Coppini [mailto:AndreaCoppini@xxxxxxxx]
> 
> Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 1:37 AM
> Subject: URGENT - Exch 5.5 info store limit reached!
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm in panic mode.  My mailbox store shot up from
> 10Gb to the max 16.7Gb in
> a few weeks (probably BackupExec was the culprit,
> not sure though).
> 
> I'm deleting old mailboxes and have also instructed
> the users to delete any
> unnecessary e-mails, but the mailbox store is not
> reducing in size.
> 
> How can I reduce it?
> 
> I noticed the message retention setting was set to
> 30 days, now I have
> reduced it to 0, am I correct in thinking that this
> will flush any
> tombstoned items?  If not, how do I clean the
> deleted stuff?
> 
> HELP!
> 
> Normally-chilled-and-helpfully yours...
> Andy
> 
> 
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