Running eseutil on a raid drive subsystem may cause problems. That may have something to do with to it. Best is to just buy more disk. Then run it offline as per instructions. I don't trust networked drives. Exchange and support SANs are another sticky point with MS. Well talked about on here.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Yanek Korff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 3:26 PM Subject: RE: disaster debriefing > He followed the KB article, whatever it was. Services were down. I think > he followed all the "right" procedures. The temp file was on a network > drive that had plenty of room. The defragged temp database exists on the > temp drive and is whole. That's how he figures it freed 3.5 gigs. > > -Yanek. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Josefowski, Larry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 2:26 PM > > To: Exchange Discussions > > Subject: RE: disaster debriefing > > > > > > 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] > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > 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]
