Are you trying to do a backup to the same hard drives? Why not try to backup to another computer? John Tolmachoff MCSE CSSA Engineer/Consultant eServices For You www.eservicesforyou.com > -----Original Message----- > From: Aber Whitcomb [mailto:aber@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 11:47 AM > To: [ExchangeList] > Subject: [exchangelist] RE: Logs > > http://www.MSExchange.org/ > > Thanks Mark. The server is hanging by a thread. Does circular logging get rid of > previous logs? From yesterday for instance? At this point I'm about to just move > the logs to another server and see what happens. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Fugatt [mailto:mark@xxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 11:28 AM > To: [ExchangeList] > Subject: [exchangelist] RE: Logs > > > http://www.MSExchange.org/ > > If you system is running OK at the moment, I would recommend turning on > circular logging and let it flush the logs, then make a good backup and then > disable circular logging, you might want to consider purchasing an extra HD > just for the log files. > > > Mark Fugatt > MCT, MCSE, Microsoft Exchange MVP > Pentech Office Solutions Inc > Tel: 585 586 3890 > Cell: 585 576 4750 > Fax: 585 249 0316 > www.4mcts.com > www.exchangetrainer.com > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Aber Whitcomb [mailto:aber@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 2:25 PM > To: [ExchangeList] > > http://www.MSExchange.org/ > > Thanks for the reply. > > I understand that I need to backup to remove the logs. But my problem is > the backup is failing because there is no diskspace. Most of the space is > being taken up by uncommitted logs from yesterday and today. So my question > is, what is the worst case scenario if I just delete these logs to free up > some space? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Tim Lamberth [mailto:tlamberth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 11:18 AM > To: [ExchangeList] > Subject: [exchangelist] RE: Logs > > > http://www.MSExchange.org/ > > You need to do an exchange aware backup to remove the logs from mdbdata dir > - use the eseutil /mk (something like that) to find the committed log files > which can be deleted. > Win2k backup is Exchange aware. > TL > > -----Original Message----- > From: Aber Whitcomb [mailto:aber@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 1:10 PM > To: [ExchangeList] > Subject: [exchangelist] Logs > > http://www.MSExchange.org/ > > We're having some serious diskspace issues with our exchange 2k box. All of > the viruses being quarantined are part of the problem. We also have a ton > of exchange logs that are sitting around. The problem is we don't have time > to run a backup before the disk fills up and the backup fails. Is it ok to > just delete the logs? I know this may affect backing up today, but we > really, really need to free up some space. > > Any help would be great. 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