The utility is dangerous in the wrong hands. It can take a very, very, very long time to run. It also gets very snitty when you don't have enough room on the HD (or network share) to create the temp file that is part of the defrag process....Where did he attempt to create the temp file....on the same drive that is almost full?
And how is he enjoying his time at home these days? -----Original Message----- From: Yanek Korff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 2:16 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: disaster debriefing Ok, so we had a disaster the other day. Co-Worker of mine ran eseutil against the private IS to free up some disk space. We were at about 95% capacity on the drive, and it would creep up to about 98% before the nightly incrementals, which brought it back down. Now, I'm not positive what command he ran, but apparently it cleared about 3.5 gigs out of the IS. Right before eseutil exited, however, it apparently "hung" waiting for a command prompt. I'm a little fuzzy as to what happened after this. I think he tried to reboot, and then the IS didn't come up -- he got some errors, looked them up in the KB to very little avail. So when I got in at 9 the next morning, mail was down. He was still there. We managed to put humpty dumpty back together again restoring from the full backup we made right before starting this procedure. It took several attempts - he had tried restoring from backup before but hadn't had any success. I think the procedure we followed was this: Shut down all exchange services Start System Attendant & directory service Restore DS Stop System Attendant & directory service Restart System Attendant Restore IS Any other combination of services running/not running didn't work out. We're using Veritas Backup Exec BTW. Well everything's back to the way it was before we started this whole mess. I know I've seen discussions about eseutil on this list before, but I wanted to revisit this and get some concrete information. What did we do wrong? What's the right way to use eseutil to gain disk space? I'd appreciate any non-flaming advice, pointers, docs, etc. I find the archives non-intuitive -- or maybe I'm looking in the wrong place? Can't seem to find a good place to type in a search phrase "eseutil" and have it return relevant data (I'm here: http://www.swynk.com) -Yanek. _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
