MDBDATA Folder - Exchange server 2000

[Guest_imported]

In Exchange Server 2000, there is a folder called MDBDATA. it contains a bunch of .log files. My question is, if my backup server backs these up daily, is there any need to keep them. I mean, there are 1000+ of them at 5 megs a piece.

 

[brontosaurus]

what backup software/server are you using? An exchange aware backup program will allow for automatic deletion of log files that have written all their transactions to the IS.

 

[Guest_imported]

I am backing up with a program called Backup Exec. It is getting all those files. I just dont think that I need 4 months worth of those files sitting there at 5 megs a file with over 1300 files.

 

[brontosaurus]

you don't. How often do you do a full backup? You could probably leave a few days worth there and be fine...

 

[Zelandakh]

backup exec has an option inside the Exchange section called flush committed transaction logs.

 

[brontosaurus]

Thanks Zel, never used BE before....

 

[gomobile]

Greetings;

I ran into the same problem and have NOTICE that the FLUSH feature is not removing the logs also? I myself have many many log files and don't think I need to keep 4 months of LOGS? Any ideas would deeply be appreciated.

Note: We are a very small shop (60 users) and well the ex-IT person never did any ADMIN stuff. Now its up to me to clean this and that (ie: we bough BE 8.6 with all the approriate options).

 

[jrmjh]

You may want to consider only flushing the logs on a weekly basis.

I'm also a small shop (20 users) but I can get to 50+ log files before the weekly flushes committed logs.