RE: exchange ate up my hard drive
- From: "Dolly Bareqet" <dolly_bareqet@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "'[ExchangeList]'" <exchangelist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 21:11:17 +0200
I totally agree with you
Dolly
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Fugatt [mailto:mark@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 9:34 PM
To: [ExchangeList]
Subject: [exchangelist] RE: exchange ate up my hard drive
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I would strongly suggest no one enable circular logging on their
Exchange server, you run the risk of losing a whole lot of data if
you need to perform a restore.
Mark Fugatt
At Tuesday, 15 October 2002, you wrote:
>http://www.MSExchange.org/
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>Guys,
>
>Any one considered his solution - Enable Circular Logging.
>Exchange will reuse the old logs.
>Delete everything prior to one week and enable circular logs!
>
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: PeterM [mailto:petermags@xxxxxxxxxx]
>Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 11:55 AM
>To: [ExchangeList]
>Subject: [exchangelist] RE: exchange ate up my hard drive
>
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>Have you by chance turned tracking & logging for one or more of your
>connectors.
>If so these can fill a drive fairly quickly.
>You really only need these for error tracking & analysis.
>system manager - server - properties check that enable tracking
logging
>etc
>is how it should be, and log file maintenance is set to a short time
>frame
>if you need to track
>Also Check all protocol logging ... smtp http etc...
>Are these files recent?
>regards
>Peter
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Dolly Bareqet" <dolly@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: "[ExchangeList]" <exchangelist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 3:29 PM
>Subject: [exchangelist] RE: exchange ate up my hard drive
>
>http://www.MSExchange.org/
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>The exchange log files are always 5 MB and they supposed to be with the
>*.log. It is strange that they are with *.txt.
>All of the replies you've got are the base of creating Exchange server.
>If your tape is broken in the mean time you can backup your exchange to
>folder on another machine. I don't backup my Exchange to tape at all,
>I'm backing up to another machine daily and keep 2 last backups
>available.
>
>Dolly
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Harel Zahavi [mailto:harel_zahavi@xxxxxxxxx]
>Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 4:12 PM
>To: [ExchangeList]
>Subject: [exchangelist] RE: exchange ate up my hard drive
>
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>well i have about 14gigs of txt files named
>numberically E0000001.txt in my MDBDATA directory
>they are about 5megs each which is consitent for log
>files, which is why i ask... i do backup but
>unfortunatly my tape backup hasnt work correctly in
>about a week.
>
>--- PeterM <petermags@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> http://www.MSExchange.org/
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>> log files have a .LOG extension.
>> Try to separate database and log files onto diferent
>> drives, this is very
>> important for disaster recovery.
>> Separate database and system files, better to leave
>> LOG files on the system
>> drive.
>> NOTE that we are talking physical drive NOT logical.
>> As with all exchange servers the operating system on
>> drive 0, LOGs on drive
>> 0 or 1 (preffered), then storage groups on next
>> drive 1 or 2, and if large
>> add more storage goups to additional drives, this
>> way you can add more
>> drives as the need arrises, and move storage groups
>> or create more storage
>> groups on them.
>> Keep the log file dataspace small by proper backups.
>> Before you can move a storage group to a different location(system
>> manager, properties of storeage group), the folder must
>> exist.
>> regards
>> Peter
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Harel Zahavi" <harel_zahavi@xxxxxxxxx>
>> To: "[ExchangeList]" <exchangelist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 2:14 PM
>> Subject: [exchangelist] RE: exchange ate up my hard
>> drive
>>
>>
>> > http://www.MSExchange.org/
>> >
>> > would the txt files in that mdbdata directory be
>> the
>> > logging files?
>> >
>> >
>> > --- Andrea Coppini <andreacoppini@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > > http://www.MSExchange.org/
>> > >
>> > > If you can get to System Manager, here is where
>> to
>> > > change it:
>> > >
>> > > System Manager
>> > > |--Servers
>> > > |----[SERVERNAME]
>> > > |---First Storage Group
>> > >
>> > > Right click on 'Mailbox Store' and switch to the 'Database' tab.
>> > > The 'Exchange database' and 'Exchange streaming
>> > > database' locations are
>> > > where your information store is stored.
>> > >
>> > > If you move one step up and right click on
>> 'First
>> > > Storage Group' and
>> > > choose properties, you can choose where to put
>> the
>> > > 'Transaction Logs'
>> > > and the 'System Path' location (haven't figured
>> out
>> > > what System Path is
>> > > exactly, but the default is also '\mdbdata' so
>> you
>> > > might want to keep it
>> > > with your IS.
>> > >
>> > > Any changes you do here will automatically stop
>> the
>> > > Exchange services
>> > > and move any existing files.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > -----Original Message-----
>> > > From: Harel [mailto:harel_zahavi@xxxxxxxxx]
>> > > Sent: 15 October 2002 1:34 PM
>> > > To: [ExchangeList]
>> > > Subject: [exchangelist] exchange ate up my hard
>> > > drive
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > http://www.MSExchange.org/
>> > >
>> > > i was wondering if anyone knew if it is at all
>> > > possible to change the
>> > > mdbdata directory in exchange 2000, it has grown
>> to
>> > > full capacity on my
>> > > server and i now i have no c drive. is there any
>> way
>> > > to break it yup
>> > > accross multiple hard drives or is my only way
>> to
>> > > start to set up
>> > > mailbox quotas? also what happened to the
>> > > performance optimizer utility
>> > > for 2000?
>> > >
>> > >
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