Why are you defragging - have you just done a large amount of mailbox moves ? You are surely aware of the importance of your transaction logs ? Delete those - defragged or no defragged and you will shag your exchange server, what you need to do is a full backup - that will get rid of the transaction logs. Regards Brian Parker Senior Computing Officer -----Original Message----- From: Erhard Haniffa [mailto:erhard@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 4:38 AM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] Exchange Ofline Defrag http://www.MSExchange.org/ Hello all, Just a quick question about offline defrag of and exchange 2000 database. I've backed up the database and about to start. i dont' have circular loggin g turned on so there are all these log files in the MDBdata folder with the PRIV1.edb and PUB1.edb files. After running the defrag can I delete the log files? What I've actually done is, I've made a copy of the mdb data folder onto another drive and I'm gong to defrag the copy of the database not the one in the priginal mdbdata folder. Can I then delete the log files from the that folder and replace the the defraged database into the directory of the original one? ------------------------------------------------------ List Archives: http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist Exchange Newsletters: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/newsletter.asp Exchange FAQ: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/larticle.asp?type=FAQ ------------------------------------------------------ Other Internet Software Marketing Sites: World of Windows Networking: http://www.windowsnetworking.com Leading Network Software Directory: http://www.serverfiles.com No.1 ISA Server Resource Site: http://www.isaserver.org Windows Security Resource Site: http://www.windowsecurity.com/ Network Security Library: http://www.secinf.net/ Windows 2000/NT Fax Solutions: http://www.ntfaxfaq.com ------------------------------------------------------ You are currently subscribed to this MSEXchange.org Discussion List as: bparker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe visit http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist Report abuse to listadmin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx