I run exeutil about once a month. We're using Small Business Server 4.5 with NT4 Server. It requires shutting down the exchange server, and you need space for the temporary database so it can execute. I have very limited space, and I have to redirect my temp file to a workstation hard drive to have space to run it. But I've never had a problem. I only have experience with one server and one OS.. but it's the only way I know to shrink that database back down.
Your database is huge compared to mine; so you're looking at more than a few minutes offline. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 29, 2002 2:42 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Recovering lost space Oops... my apologies... Yes... Exchange 5.5 on W2K. I'll take a look at Eseutil... I think I'd heard in the past that it wasn't the safest thing in the world to use? Or am I thinking of something else??? Thanks, Evan -----Original Message----- From: Dawn R. Ashford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 29, 2002 3:38 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Recovering lost space Is that Exchange 5.5? Eseutil is what you're looking for. Q182903 will give you command line parameters. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 29, 2002 2:35 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Recovering lost space I think this may be a commonly asked question, which is bad because I should be able to find the answer better than I have, but good because it may be easy to answer :-) I've finally got a lot of mail archived to PST's. Probably about $GB in various files. Now, as I think is usually the case, the priv.edb file size has not shrunk (still 8GB). What the safest way to shrink this? While I still have 5GB free on the array, I use NT Backup to backup Exchange to my file server each night. That file then gets picked up on tape, which is only 40GB, and I've been at that limit forever, removing new things from the backup each night to keep it under the limit. I need to cut this size down if possible.... Thanks, Evan 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 List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
