I overlooked that little tidbit just last weekend. Fortunately, my Exchange servers are on a SAN so I was able to allocate additional space to the Transaction Log partition in a matter of minutes.
For those who can't dynamically grow partitions on the fly, I've seen recommendations that you place a few GBs of useless data on your Transaction Log partitions so that if you ever do fill them up, you can delete the data and hopefully buy yourself enough time to perform a full backup. - Sean On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 7:42 AM, John Cook <john.c...@pfsf.org> wrote: > One more thing – moving mailboxes generates a crapload of log files so > plan accordingly, that’s an often overlooked detail that can bring the > server to a screeching halt once a drive fills up! > > > > *John W. Cook* > > *Systems Administrator* > > *Partnership For Strong Families* > > *315 SE 2nd Ave* > > *Gainesville, Fl 32601* > > *Office (352) 393-2741 x320* > > *Cell (352) 215-6944* > > *Fax (352) 393-2746* > > *MCSE, MCTS, MCP+I, A+, N+, VSP4, VTSP4* > > > > *From:* John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] > *Sent:* Monday, November 16, 2009 11:38 AM > > *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues > *Subject:* RE: MS Exchange 2007 Online defrag? > > > > Actually the mailboxes WILL be offline during the move (a feature that 2010 > fixes) but cached mode minimizes the impact. Be mindful that Exchange will > only move 4 mailboxes at a time (but you can schedule as many as you want) > so if you were actually watching the progress you’d see the rest listed as > pending till one of the 4 threads completed. Also keep in mind that moving a > mailbox separates it from the retained deleted items (one of the reasons the > move gets you more space in the first place) so recovery of those files > will be lost. > > > > *John W. Cook* > > *Systems Administrator* > > *Partnership For Strong Families* > > *315 SE 2nd Ave* > > *Gainesville, Fl 32601* > > *Office (352) 393-2741 x320* > > *Cell (352) 215-6944* > > *Fax (352) 393-2746* > > *MCSE, MCTS, MCP+I, A+, N+, VSP4, VTSP4* > > > > *From:* Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org] > *Sent:* Monday, November 16, 2009 10:55 AM > *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues > *Subject:* RE: MS Exchange 2007 Online defrag? > > > > 2007, in the subject. > > > > But +1 for a mailbox move to a new store. Schedule it to be automatic at > night. No real performance hit or mailbox downtime…easy peasy. > > > > > > > > *From:* John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] > *Sent:* Monday, November 16, 2009 9:28 AM > *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues > *Subject:* RE: MS Exchange 2007 Online defrag? > > > > You’d be better served to move the mailboxes to a new DB providing you have > that capability, Exchange version would be good to know…. > > > > *John W. Cook* > > *Systems Administrator* > > *Partnership For Strong Families* > > *315 SE 2nd Ave* > > *Gainesville, Fl 32601* > > *Office (352) 393-2741 x320* > > *Cell (352) 215-6944* > > *Fax (352) 393-2746* > > *MCSE, MCTS, MCP+I, A+, N+, VSP4, VTSP4* > > > > *From:* Cesare' A. Ramos [mailto:cra...@idfllc.com] > *Sent:* Monday, November 16, 2009 9:25 AM > *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues > *Subject:* MS Exchange 2007 Online defrag? > > > > Hellos. > > > > Anyone have any recommendations for an online defrag utility for the MS > Exchange message store? 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