You should let the optimizer do it. It will stop the services for you and make suggested changes to you that you can override. Why would you not let this service work for you. dave
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 10:39 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Need help moving Exchange database log files Hi, Prior to moving log files you should stop exchange services, that means that all users will be kicked off automatically or their outlook client will hang, so you might want to do this when as few people as possible are using the system. If you want to move where the default places for your logs are you should run the exchange optimizer. It will give you some parametres where exchange thinks all files should be placed but you can easily change them. If your backup software is configured correctly it should delete the log files after a succesful backup, except for tracking logs for which you can specify different retention times depending on how long back you want to be able to track messages. You can view the mailbox resources if you go to the private information store of the server in question. Hopefully this answers some of your questions, I'm quite new to this list so please correct me if I'm wrong on any accounts. Br. Patrick Johansson -----Original Message----- From: ext Jennifer Gaylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 24 October, 2001 18:57 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Need help moving Exchange database log files I need to move the exchange database logging files (edbxxxx and mdbxxxx) off of my main hard drive as they are filling up the drive and shutting down the Exchange services. At present I am running Backup Exec with differential backups and so have turned off Circular logging. This has also been suggested in some of the reading I have done on exchange. As a result, more log files are being written in the mdbdata directories. Ideally, I would like to move these and all other logging files to the d: drive and I would like to know, should this be done only when there are no users on the system, will this improve or adversly affect the operation of the exchange server and will Backup Exec have a problem backing up the exchange mailboxes if these files are moved in the middle of the day. An error showed up on Bup Exec yesterday that it could not backup the Information stores because the log files had been moved or deleted after I tried to move a users mailbox and import it on to the Exchange server. This filled up the c: drive (he had 2000 messages) with loging files in mdbdata and shut down the Exchange services. So I moved the log files to the d: drive temporarily to get exchange running. If I move them back c:\ will fill up again and down the service. Also, How can I find out how big the information store is for a particular user? What a mess! Thanks. List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
