Online Defragmentation

[Slik]

Hey hope someone can help with this one. This pops up daily on our Exchange 5.5 server in the Event Viewer

Source:ESE97
Event ID: 183
Type: Information

MSExchangeIS (411) Online defragmentation of database 'E:\exchsrvr\MDBDATA\PRIV.EDB' was interrupted and terminated. The next time online defragmentation is started on this database, it will resume from the point of interruption.

Now I know this is directly related to the Online Defrag that Exchange performs, what I don't know is if it is normal to have it pop up daily at various times, I have set it to go early in the morning so it will finish before people get in but it has not stopped this message.

Any Ideas?

Thanks

 

[royalmail]

No idea if it is related, but I had an issue whereby every time the online defrag ran it would crash the Exchange server with a blue screen. This wasn't nice as it happened every night in the middle of the night and didn't reboot so no mail was processed. I swear the databases were corrupted but all checks said they were fine.

The only way I could stop this from happening was to turn off all online maintenance completely. In the long run I had to add another server to the site, move everything across to the new server, and decomission the corrupt server.

If I was you I would make sure you have very good backups and a solid workaround plan in place...

 

[SneakyDevil]

I have seen this issue occur on some Exchange servers before.

You need to extend the time that the online defrag is set to run as it is being interrupted before it finishes.

Let me know if this corrects your issue.