Phillip, It depends on the size of your database and the hardware configuration. When I ran ESEUTIL on a 6 GB database in a PII - 550 MHz Compaq Proliant server with 1GB RAM it took about 4 hrs to complete. Regards, Raj -----Original Message----- From: Roberts Phillip (IBM) [mailto:RobertsP@xxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 8:41 AM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] Eseutil http://www.MSExchange.org/ What is a good way to estimate the downtime that will be needed to run eseutil? We are a 24x7 shop and downtime has to be kept to a minimum, so I need to be able to tell users how long email will be unavailable. Thanks, Phillip B. Roberts Network Administrator Thomson 24200 U.S. Route 23, South Circleville, OH 43113-9002 Ph: 740-477-6652 (x6652) Fx: 740-420-6511 Pg: 740-863-0080 (x5306 Internal) Cell: 614-477-6741 robertsp@xxxxxxx ___ Privileged/Confidential Information may be contained in this message. If you are not the addressee indicated in this message (or responsible for delivery of the message to such person), you may not copy or deliver this message to anyone. In such case, you should destroy this message and kindly notify the sender by reply email. ___ ------------------------------------------------------ You are currently subscribed to this MSExchange.org Discussion List as: raj.periyasamy@xxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send a blank email to $subst('Email.Unsub')