RE: OT: Good source for Exchange Mailstore Management
- From: "Young, Gerald G" <Gerald.Young@xxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 07:49:04 -0600
Keep in mind, however, that repairing or performing an offline defrag
against a database will render the log files useless. Unless you stop
your mail server, you're potentially going to lose mail stuck in log
files doing that.
Cordially yours,
Jerry G. Young II
MCSE (4.0/W2K)
Atlanta EES Implementation Team Lead
HHS Engineering
Unisys
11493 Sunset Hills Rd.
Reston, VA 20190
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-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Moffat [mailto:steve@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 6:32 PM
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Excellent post, one small addendum.....copy the mailstore and repair and
defrag the copy....no downtime...replace the bad with good when it
suits....:))
Done that a few times now.
S
-----Original Message-----
From: Young, Gerald G [mailto:Gerald.Young@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 6:14 PM
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As long as my messages provide value to people, that's all I can ask
for. :)
Thank you for the kind words. :)
Cordially yours,
Jerry G. Young II
MCSE (4.0/W2K)
Atlanta EES Implementation Team Lead
HHS Engineering
Unisys
11493 Sunset Hills Rd.
Reston, VA 20190
Office: 703-579-2727
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-----Original Message-----
From: Thor (Hammer of God) [mailto:Thor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 3:31 PM
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OT posts are good sometimes ;)
t
On Mar 14, 2006, at 12:24 PM, Talley, Scott wrote:
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> Gerald, I just wanted to add my $.02 that your responses to the
> NON-ISA questions posted to this list are GOLD!! I don't think there
> is one that hasn't been useful to me, even though I didn't ask the
> question. Thanks for your valuable time and thorough and
> understandable information.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Scott Talley
> IT Manager, The Combined Group
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Young, Gerald G [mailto:Gerald.Young@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 1:54 PM
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> Subject: [isalist] RE: OT: Good source for Exchange Mailstore
> Management
>
>
> http://www.ISAserver.org
>
> You're going to want to check the integrity of your database file
> using the eseutil /k command. Unfortunately, that means you'll need
> to dismount the store. Did your Exchange server crash sometime
> recently?
> Or was it just after the issue you were having with the disk in the
> shared storage that you started having problems?
>
> Since you got to take down the store to check the database integrity,
> you might want to go ahead and perform an offline backup, too. Check
> out KB Article 237767 (XADM: Understanding Offline and Snapshot
> Backups)
> for additional information on how to do so. Be sure to grab a copy of
> all log files between the last time you took a successful backup and
> now to be sure you can reply them against the offline backup, if
> necessary.
>
> So, if you're not able to take a backup, what's your log file free
> disk space looking like? My guess would be that it's filling up.
> Dismounting the store should commit any data in the log files to the
> database. You can confirm this by running the eseutil /mh command
> against your database file once you stop the store. The state should
> be listed as Clean Shutdown.
>
> 90GB database file in and of itself isn't necessarily problematic. It
> is, however, unwieldy. We're running off of a fibre SAN with fibre
> drives in our environment. Even so, backup and restore takes a long
> time. It's probably in your best interest to separate your users, if
> only to decrease the total size of a single database. While this may
> increase the complexity of your Exchange and disk configuration, it
> will help minimize the issues that can occur when you do have large
> stores.
>
> For backup, restore, and archival (I realize you're already using a
> solution but I figured I'd throw this out anyway since it addresses
> all functionality), take a look at the NearPoint solution from Mimosa
> Systems (www.mimosasystems.com). It uses a pretty slick architecture
> that enables pretty much near realtime restoration of Exchange data
> right down to the individual mail message level. It does this by
> copying your production database from your Exchange server to itself
> and then through log shipping (both periodic [you set the period
> between shipments] and dynamic [each time a log file is created, it's
> copied to the NearPoint server]), it replays those log files directly
> against its copy of your Exchange database. It also has a zero
> footprint on both your Exchange servers and clients (no agents).
>
> If you have more questions about any of this, feel free to ping me
> offlist. :)
>
> Cordially yours,
> Jerry G. Young II
> MCSE (4.0/W2K)
> Atlanta EES Implementation Team Lead
> HHS Engineering
> Unisys
>
> 11493 Sunset Hills Rd.
> Reston, VA 20190
> Office: 703-579-2727
> Cell: 703-625-1468
>
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