I am running Windows2000 Exchange.

[ronny31]

I am running Windows2000 Exchange. An excessive number of log files are being created daily in the MDBDATA directory. Every few days I move them over to another server to free up disk space. My question is do I need to keep these files and is there any way to stop this from occurring? I current have Nortons Antivirus running. Does that cause it. If, so what can I do to disable it?

 

[felixfong]

Those are transaction logs....

They get cleanup after each backup.

If you don't really care about incremental backup, you can enable circular logging to min. on the number of transaction logs.

You can find that option under Properties of you Storage Group.

 

[ronny31]

Thank you.

 

[paulcap]

I posted a similar question a few days ago. If you let the anti virus software check the M: drive or the directory with the transaction logs, it will cause this problem.

Paul

 

[Xybertron]

"If you don't really care about incremental backup, you can enable circular logging to min. on the number of transaction logs."

This should say - If your job doesn't depend on getting the data back to the point of failure then turn on circular logging. Dan
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