Really?  What's the link, I'm subbin...  :P

D

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reaches of which we are capable." -Leo C. Rosten

-----Original Message-----
From: Lefkovics, William [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 6:45 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Defragging the IS


LOL!

No, I got kicked off.


----Original Message-----
From: Don Ely [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 12:08 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Defragging the IS


Speakin of CareBear...  William doesn't run that list.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 12:09 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Defragging the IS


ROFL....William!!! 

-----Original Message-----
From: Clark, Steve [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 11:04 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Defragging the IS

Don't really call me slow - I might have to go to the carebear list that
William runs.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Crosby, Tim (Sarcom) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 1:50 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Defragging the IS

OK, what would be a more realistic estimate then?  I'd like to be able to
give them some idea.

-----Original Message-----
From: Don Ely [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 1:49 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Defragging the IS


Don't do a defrag for a measly 16MB!  2-3 hours for a 36GB IS!!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!  Yeah,
riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiggghhhhhhhhhhhtttttttttttt.

D

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warning to others."

-----Original Message-----
From: Crosby, Tim (Sarcom) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 10:40 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Defragging the IS


Tomorrow we are scheduled to move our single server Exchange 5.5 site over
to a new Compaq DL380 server that is part of a SAN.  Old server is NT4, SP6.
New server will be Windows 2000, SP2 but will still have Exchange 5.5, SP4.


My boss wants us do a complete backup of the server tonight, then come in
tomorrow and do a defrag of the database, back it up again, and restore it
to the new server.  It seems to be the general consensus on this list that
defrag=bad.  But what about in this situation where we are moving to a new
server and we are scheduled to have the server down for 24 hours anyway?  

I checked the event logs and, as of last night it shows that the database
has 16 megabytes of free space after online defragmentation.  Is this the
"white space" that I've heard about?  And is that all the space we will gain
by doing a defrag?  If that's the case, I will suggest we don't take the
time and risk of doing a defrag of the IS.  I'm guessing it will take at
least 2-3 hours to defrag our 36GB database????  Or will there be a
performance increase by doing a defrag now?

Thanks for your input.

Tim



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