Help! Backup didn't run Exchange logs filled partition

Client moved their office in November and for one reason or another hasn't
run backup since 11/10/04. Prior to that an Exchange aware backup using
Tapeware was run daily without serious incident on the Dell Poweredge SBS
2000 sever for the last year and a half.

Today Exchange services stopped with the event log message that the Exchange
partition ( I setup a separate partition for Exchange when I setup the
server) had only 3 mb of space left.

I checked the MDBDATA folder and, as I expected, it was full of E00XXXX.log
files going back to 11/10/04 each of 5,120 kb size.

I tried running the backup to clear the logs but as the Exchange services
were stopped the backup ran fine, it just did not backup Exchange and thus,
apparently, did not clear the log files.

The question, I think, is how to clear up enough space on the Exchange
partition to mount the store to run the backup to clear the logfiles.

Is there a good way to do this? Or any good way to delete the logfiles? I
understand that it just brute force deleting them can be dangerous. Can they
be moved? I have space on my data partition to do this temporarily.

Thanks,

Victor

Kevin
Wed Dec 08 22:24:39 CST 2004

run a backup and only backup the Exchange store, as described here:
http://www.smallbizserver.net/Default.aspx?tabid=74

--
Kevin Weilbacher [SBS-MVP]
"The days pass by so quickly now, the nights are seldom long"


"Victor" <victor@yahoonomail.com> wrote in message
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> Client moved their office in November and for one reason or another hasn't
> run backup since 11/10/04. Prior to that an Exchange aware backup using
> Tapeware was run daily without serious incident on the Dell Poweredge SBS
> 2000 sever for the last year and a half.
>
> Today Exchange services stopped with the event log message that the
> Exchange
> partition ( I setup a separate partition for Exchange when I setup the
> server) had only 3 mb of space left.
>
> I checked the MDBDATA folder and, as I expected, it was full of
> E00XXXX.log
> files going back to 11/10/04 each of 5,120 kb size.
>
> I tried running the backup to clear the logs but as the Exchange services
> were stopped the backup ran fine, it just did not backup Exchange and
> thus,
> apparently, did not clear the log files.
>
> The question, I think, is how to clear up enough space on the Exchange
> partition to mount the store to run the backup to clear the logfiles.
>
> Is there a good way to do this? Or any good way to delete the logfiles? I
> understand that it just brute force deleting them can be dangerous. Can
> they
> be moved? I have space on my data partition to do this temporarily.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Victor
>
>