Transaction Log Troubles

[glifex]

Hello Everyone,

Does anyone know an easy way to clean up my mdbdata folder. There are about 7,000 transaction logs in there at 5MB a piece. I am running low on disk space because of this. I have done a Normal (full) back up using the NT backup on windows 2000 server. the logs have not cleared. I also ran the ESE Utility (eseutil /m/k and got some error message saying that edb.chk was not found. I came across this article

http://www.mcse.ms/message316314.html

and was wondering if anyone approves of this method. Or does anyone have any suggestions on how I can get rid of these log files.

P.S. additionally there are also a bunch of IFS files in there. Any ideas?
Thank you so much in advance!

Best Regards,
Will

 

[xmsre]

Do an exchange aware full online backup. The logs will automagically disappear.

 

[glifex]

Hi Xmsre

Thanks for the response. I did do a back up using the ntbackup. I selected the Microsft Exchange Server and it asked me what server i wanted to connect to? I typed in the server name and the exchange server came up and I selected Microsoft imnformation store. I did a normal (full) backup but the logs are still there. Did I also have to select the actual drives where the information stores are located?

P.S. did you get a chance to look at that link I sent.. what do you think of there method?

Thanks Again
Will

 

[xmsre]

That's basically the method. I would say that you need to check the application log to make sure the backups are completing successfully. At the successful completion of a full online backup, the logs should be truncated. If you find that your backups are completing successfully, or you have recently switched to circular logging, or you removed a storage group residing on the same drive and the logs weren't removed, then you can use eseutil to determine which logs are safe to manually remove.