Are you using Mailbox Manager (comes with SP3 / SP4)? Useful for cleaning out deleted and sent items.
One thing we found here which was chewing up private IS space was journals. If your users are using them, do they need to? If they do, how long do they need to retain them? I've configured Mailbox Manager here to delete old journals automatically. When I did that, we freed up 3GB of IS space. Phil --------------------------------------------- Phil Randal Network Engineer Herefordshire Council Hereford, UK > -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Zatkalik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 20 December 2001 22:11 > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Is the offline defrag my only choice? > > > I guess I do need to correct myself. The file in question is > my priv.edb, > NOT pub.edb. Logs, from what I understand, are not stored in > the priv.edb > file. I am checking the properties on the priv file > directly, so I do not > believe public folders, or logs are the issue. I just looked > at the item > retention settings and did notice that it is set to 14 days, > which I think > should be lowered to 7 days, but have to make sure that I can > go that short. > > > With this new information, it makes a little bit more sense > in regards to > the size of the file. What is the "ideal" time frame for > this retention > period? Is my thought of 7 days too short? We do full backups on the > weekends and incremental nightly, obviously without circular logging > enabled. > > Thanks again, > > MZ > > -----Original Message----- > From: David N. Precht [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 3:45 PM > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > Subject: Re: Is the offline defrag my only choice? > > > Public Folders? Logs? > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mike Zatkalik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "MS-Exchange Admin Issues" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 15:39 > Subject: RE: Is the offline defrag my only choice? > > > > Event ID 1221 says: > > > > The database has 369 megabytes of free space after online > defragmentation > > has terminated. > > > > If I understand what you are saying, I would only be > freeing up 369MB of > > whitespace by doing an offline defrag? My concern is that I have > > approximately 350 regular mailboxes, 50 dl's and 50 cr's, > and I can't > > believe that I actually have 50GB of mail with 350 mailboxes. My 2 > largest > > mailboxes are just barely over a 1GB, and only 20 or so > mailboxes are > above > > 500MB. If I am missing something here, please feel free to > correct me. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Mike Z > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Lefkovics, William [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 1:54 PM > > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > > Subject: RE: Is the offline defrag my only choice? > > > > > > The online defrag defrags data within the file. It doesn't > change the > file > > size. > > > > What does event ID 1221 show in the application event log? > > > > If the whitespace is significant, then perhaps an offline > defrag would be > > appropriate for you. > > > > William Lefkovics, MCSE, A+ > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Mike Zatkalik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 11:25 AM > > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > > Subject: Is the offline defrag my only choice? > > > > > > Hello, > > > > I am running Exchange Enterprise 5.5 SP3 on NT4 Enterprise > Server. Before > I > > started at this company, the previous Exchange admin wasn't > deleting ANY > > mailboxes of old employees, which totaled approximately 11 > GB that could > be > > deleted. My pub.edb is just about up to 50GB, which takes > almost 9 hours > to > > backup, and I noticed after deleting roughly 4GB of old > mailboxes, the edb > > file was still the same size. I really need to shrink this > edb file, as > the > > backups, and for that matter, the restore takes way too > long. I am not > 100% > > certain of the best, or safest, method to complete this > process as I keep > > hearing conflicting stories. > > > > 1. Online defrag will free up the disk space, which is > running nightly, > but > > it's not clearing up space for me. These people also > usually say that > never > > run the offline defrag. > > 2. Offline defrag is the only method, and they use it on a > regular basis, > > meaning once per month/every other month. > > > > Just looking for some more comments and/or concerns of > doing the offline > > defrag, since the nightly online defrag isn't doing > anything to free up > > space. > > > > TIA, > > > > ~Mike Z > > > > > > > > > > > > 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 > > > > _________________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > > 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
