RE: Information Store Maintenance

[Eldridge, Dave]

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Uptime is the only thing. Someone once told me the sign of a good net engineer was that people would always ask what the hell does he or she do? That means uptime and no cursing or speaking of the net eng when things are down. I live by that here cause people don't have a clue what I do. But my systems are always up. :-)  sorry i can't get the tongue thing to work. I'm in Colo and I can tell its quitting time here. This is third day in a row of serious rain..... Yahooo   This list rocks. later -----Original Message----- From: Ely, Don [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 3:42 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Information Store Maintenance I love "uptime", "downtime" means no nooky!  :P -----Original Message----- From: Kevin Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 5:45 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Information Store Maintenance My server has 70 gigs of white space. the tape has less value to me then the down time.. down time is not acceptable, period.     --Kevinm KMAP-SR, M, WLKMMAS, UCC+WCA, And Beyond http://www.daughtry.ca/ For Graphics and WebDesign, GO here! -----Original Message----- From: Morse, George [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 12:18 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Information Store Maintenance I ran it on two different servers that had been running for 3 years.  Each IS was around 32 GB.  It took about 3 hours and was 5 GB when it was finished.  The biggest improvement was that the backup didn't use 32GB of space on the tapes every night.   George   -----Original Message----- From: MHR(Michael Ross) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 3:14 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Information Store Maintenance   It should take you about 2-3 hours. Our database is 27 GB in size and im going to defrag it this weekend. I should be able to shrink it to about 25 GB -----Original Message----- From: Jay Personette [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 2:11 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Information Store Maintenance   Think he may be worried about bumping the 16 gig limit for non enterprise??? Jay Personette [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mavtech.com/ (281) 455-3993 -----Original Message----- From: Clark, Steve [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 1:54 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Information Store Maintenance You don't need to run this utility. Exchange maintains itself - are you having problems that you believe will be resolved? Steve Clark Clark Systems Support, LLC AVIEN Charter Member "Who's watching your network?" www.clarksupport.com           301-610-9584 voice           240-465-0323 Efax The data furnished in connection with this document is deemed by Clark Systems Support, LLC., to contain proprietary and privileged information and shall not be disclosed or used for the benefit of others without the prior written permission of Clark Systems Support, LLC. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 2:52 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Information Store Maintenance Greetings Knowledgeable Exchange Admins Our Exch5.5/SP4 WNT4.0/SP6 information store is beefed up to 15.5GB.  I was planning to run the ESEUTIL to clean up the database.  I suspect there is a lot of space that can be reclaimed and by defragging the store things *should* run more smoothly.  I have never done this so bravely I go forward, but not before asking for the sage advise of the list. A couple of things I would like to know are: 1.      Approximately how long will it take?  The box is a Dell PE2400 dual PIII-600 1GB-RAM.  I'm just looking for a ballpark so I can schedule the time. 2.      Are there any precautions, other than backups, I should take? 3.      Are there any known problems with the utility Thanks in advance. Dan Munley 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 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