RE: exchange ate up my hard drive

  • From: Harel Zahavi <harel_zahavi@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "\[ExchangeList\]" <exchangelist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 07:12:18 -0700 (PDT)

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:
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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/
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> > 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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