RE: OT: Good source for Exchange Mailstore Management
- From: "Steve Moffat" <steve@xxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 19:32:15 -0400
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
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From: Young, Gerald G [mailto:Gerald.Young@xxxxxxxxxx]
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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
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Atlanta EES Implementation Team Lead
HHS Engineering
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From: Thor (Hammer of God) [mailto:Thor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
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OT posts are good sometimes ;)
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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
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> 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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