***MYSTERY***

[dsk525]

Hi All,

I have a Windows 2000 Small Business server with Exchange 2000. I recently upgraded the hard drive from 9 gigs to 72 gigs.

The mystery is, over the weekend when there is no one working in the office, the hard drive lost 8 GIGS of space over one night! I did a search on any modified or newly created files since the last "one" day and nothing apparent was observed.

Any further suggestions on this issue would be much appreciated!

Thank you.

 

[xmsre]

The size of the exchange databases is not updated until you stop and start IS. Try restarting IS, and I bet you'll find where the missing space went.

John
MOSMWNMTK

 

[dsk525]

Thanks for your reply.

It was the log files (5MB) in the Exchange that had built up to 17 GIGS! The problem was solved after the Exchange backup.

Thank you.

 

[xmsre]

The logs aren't truncated until a full backup completes.

That's something to remember when doing a migration or using exmerge to import mail. If you move 20G of mailboxes, you'll have 20g+ logs until you do a full backup. There are two ways to go;

1. Plan on doing a full every night during your migration, or

2. Turn on circular logging until you're done migrating.


One is clearly the safest choice, but sometimes schedules don't allow for it.

John
MOSMWNMTK