http://www.petri.co.il/defragment_exchange_2000_2003_server_databases.htm

 

Offline defragmentation creates a new database by copying all records and tables from the old database into the new database . Because this is a copy, defragmentation requires free disk space equal to the size of the database (actually, you'll need 110% of free space).

 

Microsoft recommends a conservative 5 - 7 GB per hour for a defrag operation, which means that your server will be offline for as long as it takes, assuming no hardware failures will occur.

 

Thanks

Larry

 

Larry Fry

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From: exchangelist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:exchangelist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Danny
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2007 10:10 AM
To: exchangelist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ExchangeList] Exchange offline defrag timeframe

 

Any idea how long and how much disk space I will need to offline defrag the following platform?

 

Server: Xeon 3.6Ghz, 4GB RAM, RAID 5 on 4 15K RPM SAS drives

Exchange Server 2003 SP2
Primary Storage Group = 90GB
Secondary Storage Group = 15GB

 

Thanks.

 

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