I have only used eseutil when the array that hosted the store was 90% full becoming extremely sluggish. Most of the time however we just let it have the white space since we get over 6 gigs of new email every week and the vast majority of that is filtered and processed away. Our store sits at about 12 gigs and really only has about 4.5 gigs of permanent email in it.
Also, just as a side note, since I switched from RAID 5 to RAID 0+1 the eseutil runs in about 50% of the time. Not very space efficient but damn fast :) Greg Kras MCP+I MCSE Sunbelt Software Technical Services Manager -----Original Message----- From: Kevin Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 29, 2002 4:19 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Recovering lost space Only have about 10 gigs free on this array. But with 70 gigs of white space I plenty of space now. Don't think my Priv will be growing for a while... RAID 5 SCSI, it is where it is at... 4,900 users on 1 5.5 box. --Kevinm CHFR, M, WLKMMAS, UCC+WCA, And Beyond http://www.daughtry.ca/ For Graphics and WebDesign, GO here! -----Original Message----- From: Dawn R. Ashford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 29, 2002 1:12 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Recovering lost space Kevin, you must have tons of storage space! -----Original Message----- From: Kevin Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 29, 2002 3:11 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Recovering lost space I just removed 91 gigs of data from my priv, and don't plan on doing anything about it.. --Kevinm CHFR, M, WLKMMAS, UCC+WCA, And Beyond http://www.daughtry.ca/ For Graphics and WebDesign, GO here! -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 29, 2002 12:35 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 List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
