RE: ever growing log files

Siatkowski, Jason Wed, 05 Dec 2001 11:54:50 -0800

Title: RE: ever growing log files

I am an Exchange expert.
I am a liar.
:)

-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 2:49 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: ever growing log files

Lair .. You are too....

As usual Diane is correct.

--
Kevinm M WLKMMAS, UCC+WCA, CKWSE CKST

-----Original Message-----
From: Diane Beckham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 11:35 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: ever growing log files

Tim, I'm not a Exchange expert, but I don't think those are the
transaction log files that are flushed when a backup is done (at least
they aren't on my Exchange Server) Those are the MDBData logs and
usually start like edbxxxx.log and they are always 5,120KB. The log
files you are looking at, I think, is caused by someone who has set up
message tracking or diagnostic logging. I think you can just delete
them, but you better ask Martin, Don, Kevin, or William to be sure.
Look around in Exchange Admin to see if you have any type of diagnostics
being logged.

HTH,

Diane

-----Original Message-----
From: Crosby, Tim (Sarcom) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 6:39 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: ever growing log files

I tried sending this yesterday, but right after we got hit by Goner so I
don't know if it ever got through.

> We have one Exchange 5.5 server, SP4, running on NT 4 SP6a. Just
> recently
after the removal of one of our servers from the site, the C: drive on
our remaining exchange server has started running low on disk space.
Looking out there in the exchsrvr\imcdata\log folder, there are about 17
different files named L0000000, L0000001, etc. The biggest one is
almost 2GB in size and some of the others are over 100MB.
>
> Couple of questions. Should these logs be this big? I thought when
> you
do a full backup it was supposed to flush the logs. We use Backup Exec
7.3 and are doing full backups every day. Circular logging is enabled.
We have checked these logs for the past 4 days or so and they are
growing larger each day.
>
> Second, can I just run the optimizer and move these logs to a bigger
partition? I suggested doing that, but one of my coworkers says not to
touch them.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Tim

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