Agree on the last thing but I have no hand. /Kostanza Thanks Michael, appreciate your help!
From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 9:30 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: E 2010 backup question You need to let the consistency check finish and quit worrying. Life is too short. :) Remember -- those 1TB drives are SLOW to start with and you are contending with normal Exchange activity as well as the consistency check. With a 1TB drive, and only 197+218=415 GB in use - you probably don't need to worry about disk space either. Once that is done, if you want to turn on circular logging, go for it. Oh, and get a better backup product. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: pramatow...@mediageneral.com [mailto:pramatow...@mediageneral.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 8:32 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: E 2010 backup question Exchange 2010 Two sites Two mbx/HT servers in each site Three DB's per server Three way DAG, one copy go to the other server in the site and a copy to a server in the other site. No lag copies. Single 1 tb volume holds its own DB/logs. For example, L: has a 197gb database and 218gb logs (we're smack in the middle of 2003 to 2010 migration) So, a well-known 3rd party backup tells us they can't back up if there are more than 15-20gb of log files per volume (to be addressed "soon") I'm running a native MS backup that's been doing the consistency check for going on 14 hours; I know it can take a long time and I'm not quite at the point of worrying about that- yet. But between worrying about not having a backup and running out of disk space.... In theory, could we enable circular logging, stop services, move logs, start services, do backup all the while hoping nothing goes sideways in between? Seems to make sense but In the 2010 dag world, just not sure how to go about it-I'd guess we'd do the same to the log files in the dag copies as well, but if it comes down to having to do something, I don't want to guess. Any thoughts, reassurances, other ideas, or "you're in a world of ****" would be welcome:) Thanks, Paul --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com<mailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com> with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com<mailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com> with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist
