Exchange SBS and Hard Drive Space

I am relatively new to working with Exchange and have
followed the directions on installing and setting up SBS
2000. After 2 weeks of being in use, I have noticed that
both partitions on my 120 Gig hard drive are full. We are
a small 5-person office and do not received near enough
email or other data to have filled this hard drive. The
larger partition (100 gig) had almost no data on it, so I
removed the data and had the partition reformatted. This
cleared up the space and was fine. To better utilize the
public folders and some data we wanted stored there, I
moved the logs and database to the empty partition. After
the next reboot, 95 Gig has vanished. The Public folders
and the email boxes on the server have been disconnected
from all of the Client systems and all the email was put
on Local PST files to clear up space on the server prior
to formatting the secondary partition as a precaution. I
am at a serious loss on how to proceed. Any help that
anyone can offer is greatly appreciated.

Javier
Wed Jul 09 10:22:04 CDT 2003

Are you doing an Exchange aware backup???

What you are seeing is probably the exchange logs filling up... performing a
backup will take care of that.

-Javier

"Mike Dukes" <mdukes@askstaffing.com> wrote in message
news:013e01c3462d$bf437e50$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> I am relatively new to working with Exchange and have
> followed the directions on installing and setting up SBS
> 2000. After 2 weeks of being in use, I have noticed that
> both partitions on my 120 Gig hard drive are full. We are
> a small 5-person office and do not received near enough
> email or other data to have filled this hard drive. The
> larger partition (100 gig) had almost no data on it, so I
> removed the data and had the partition reformatted. This
> cleared up the space and was fine. To better utilize the
> public folders and some data we wanted stored there, I
> moved the logs and database to the empty partition. After
> the next reboot, 95 Gig has vanished. The Public folders
> and the email boxes on the server have been disconnected
> from all of the Client systems and all the email was put
> on Local PST files to clear up space on the server prior
> to formatting the secondary partition as a precaution. I
> am at a serious loss on how to proceed. Any help that
> anyone can offer is greatly appreciated.

Fez
Wed Jul 09 11:09:17 CDT 2003

sounds like you need to run a backup on the exchange information store - set
the backup to clear the log files - MS Backup will do this for you.
"Mike Dukes" <mdukes@askstaffing.com> wrote in message
news:013e01c3462d$bf437e50$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> I am relatively new to working with Exchange and have
> followed the directions on installing and setting up SBS
> 2000. After 2 weeks of being in use, I have noticed that
> both partitions on my 120 Gig hard drive are full. We are
> a small 5-person office and do not received near enough
> email or other data to have filled this hard drive. The
> larger partition (100 gig) had almost no data on it, so I
> removed the data and had the partition reformatted. This
> cleared up the space and was fine. To better utilize the
> public folders and some data we wanted stored there, I
> moved the logs and database to the empty partition. After
> the next reboot, 95 Gig has vanished. The Public folders
> and the email boxes on the server have been disconnected
> from all of the Client systems and all the email was put
> on Local PST files to clear up space on the server prior
> to formatting the secondary partition as a precaution. I
> am at a serious loss on how to proceed. Any help that
> anyone can offer is greatly appreciated.

Mike
Wed Jul 09 13:00:26 CDT 2003

Thank you for the great advise, I appreciate the fast
response time.

Mike
>-----Original Message-----
>I am relatively new to working with Exchange and have
>followed the directions on installing and setting up SBS
>2000. After 2 weeks of being in use, I have noticed that
>both partitions on my 120 Gig hard drive are full. We
are
>a small 5-person office and do not received near enough
>email or other data to have filled this hard drive. The
>larger partition (100 gig) had almost no data on it, so I
>removed the data and had the partition reformatted. This
>cleared up the space and was fine. To better utilize the
>public folders and some data we wanted stored there, I
>moved the logs and database to the empty partition. After
>the next reboot, 95 Gig has vanished. The Public folders
>and the email boxes on the server have been disconnected
>from all of the Client systems and all the email was put
>on Local PST files to clear up space on the server prior
>to formatting the secondary partition as a precaution. I
>am at a serious loss on how to proceed. Any help that
>anyone can offer is greatly appreciated.
>.
>