priv.edb "whitespace" Online defrag.

[MelvinM]

I joined a new company and noticed that in event viewer that the priv.edb had a gig of fragmentation. The online defrag was never setup correctly so I set it to once a day at 4AM. Since that time a month ago the priv.edb is now only 328mg fragmented.

Is this due to the online defrag correcting the problem, or is it a natural occurance for the priv.edb to have dynamic ammounts of defragmentation that would go from 300mgs to over a gig and back???

Thanks much.

 

[fuego007]

You may want to increase the time window for IS maintenance so that the defrag process can complete. Otherwise, what you are seeing is normal.

 

[MelvinM]

Hi fuego007,

Thanks for the answer. I have it running everyday at 4AM.. .. what would be an improvement on this? Its normal for the priv.edb to grow and shrink like this then?

I want to also Thank You for your write up on moving an older exchange server to a newer machine. I will face doing this from backup tapes in the near future and am a little concerned since it is from one domain in another country to ours here in the states, and I'm afraid of all the hidden gotchas... DNS, firewall, etc.