Exchange 2000 creating TXT documents under MDBDA Folder

[timlau]

Mid-September we installed exchange 2000 server on a new server. After the install we get about 4-10 txt documents that build up everyday in our MDBDATA folder? Any reasons why this is doing it? I open several of them up and they look like they are coded messages? What is weird is that they are all the same size at 5.120 megabites each. Which is rather large and it fills up our drive pretty fast. 1 thing we did in mid september is move the information store to a different drive.

Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks,
timlau

 

[Peping]

Hi,

During the operation of Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server, you may notice several files ending in .stf in the Mdbdata folder (or wherever you have the database log files stored).

These .stf files are temporary files that are used during the content conversion process (referred to as "IMAIL&quot. They are used to hold data for temporary data streams, and are created with FILE_FLAG_DELETE_ON_CLOSE flag set. These files are automatically deleted by the information store process, and if any .stf files are accidentally left behind (if the server crashes, for example), these files will also all be deleted upon startup of the information store service.

Peping

 

[timlau]

What is wierd is that these .txt files stay. They don't delete by themselves? The first one started out as E00001.txt (on Sept. 20th) and now as of yesterday we are up to E00006DD.txt? (Each one is 5.12 MB each) Yesterday I had to move them to another drive just to keep our email working. Is it safe to delete these? timlau

 

[brontosaurus]

those are transaction log files which exchange creates as temp storage before actually writing to the store. if you're not using circular logging, these will continue to manifest themselves until an "exchange aware" backup is run.

 

[timlau]

So Once we get our backup going then these will delete after we do a backup of the information store? timlau

 

[brontosaurus]

yes, but depending on the backup software, you may need to explicitly direct it to do so...