Exchange Drive Size Problems

Currently we have a partition on the server that houses out exchange server.
This drive is 15gig in size. However I am now finding that after a weeks
worth of logs the drive is filled up and exhange shuts down. I m wondering
what is the easiest way to decrease the size of the exchange server folder?

The backup is exhange aware so the logs are getting flushed. But there are
only about 500 meg so it realy does not provide that much space to provide
any sort of cushion.

How can I solve this.

Eddie

Les
Thu Jul 31 10:34:07 CDT 2003

Hi Eddie,

Exchange store is limited to 16 gb. So if in fact your store is actually 15
gb, and you need all that data, then you have reached the end and will have
to spend some bucks and get off SBS. A bigger drive won't help.

However.

I suspect you a) don't need all the data (clean up the store, mailboxes)
and/or b) your backup is not doing it's job.

How often are you backing up exchange?
What backup software do you use?
How many mailboxes do you have?
If you have a look at the mailboxes, what size are they?
How many log files do you have?

--
Les Connor
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[SBS MVP]



"Eddie Allen" <epa570@swbell.net> wrote in message
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> Currently we have a partition on the server that houses out exchange
server.
> This drive is 15gig in size. However I am now finding that after a weeks
> worth of logs the drive is filled up and exhange shuts down. I m
wondering
> what is the easiest way to decrease the size of the exchange server
folder?
>
> The backup is exhange aware so the logs are getting flushed. But there
are
> only about 500 meg so it realy does not provide that much space to provide
> any sort of cushion.
>
> How can I solve this.
>
> Eddie
>
>

woody
Mon Aug 04 10:29:33 CDT 2003

I believe you can change how long log files are kept for.
They are usually pretty large in size. And if your backup
program failed at some point or has been continuosly
failing then you can put kept log files down to 2 days to
save some space and then delete some of the older ones.

Peeps have warned me against this, but I found it worked
for me. No probs with exchange for a year or so now. I do
get freezing XP client machines though, only in word and
only in the last few days.

>-----Original Message-----
>Currently we have a partition on the server that houses
out exchange server.
>This drive is 15gig in size. However I am now finding
that after a weeks
>worth of logs the drive is filled up and exhange shuts
down. I m wondering
>what is the easiest way to decrease the size of the
exchange server folder?
>
>The backup is exhange aware so the logs are getting
flushed. But there are
>only about 500 meg so it realy does not provide that
much space to provide
>any sort of cushion.
>
>How can I solve this.
>
>Eddie
>
>
>.
>