RE: MDB DATA FOLDER
Could be, but it's difficult to tell with the information given. If the logs grow at an alarming rate but eventually stop, then it's not necessarily a mail loop. Enabling circular logging is not a long term solution to a mail loop; you would think the problem mailbox and thus the store would start to grow excessively! Neil Hobson Silversands http://www.silversands.co.uk Microsoft Gold Certified Partner For Enterprise Systems For Collaborative Solutions -Original Message- From: Patrick Smallwood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Posted At: 07 March 2002 08:01 Posted To: Sunbelt Exchange List Conversation: MDB DATA FOLDER Subject: RE: MDB DATA FOLDER isnt this indicative of a mail loop? haven't seen this happen to my boxes yet, so just from what I read here...any one offer any other causes? Thank you, Patrick Benjamin Zachary ben@advancedpcsolTo: MS-Exchange Admin Issues utions.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: 03/07/2002 12:08 Subject: RE: MDB DATA FOLDER AM Please respond to MS-Exchange Admin Issues Don't touch them if you don't have too. However, on e2k I have a couple servers that will be fine all week and in a few hours the log files will take 20gigs of space. Not sure what the workaround was so I just enabled circular logging.. All seems well after that.. Good luck -Original Message- From: Chris McNab [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 12:46 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: MDB DATA FOLDER Greetings All Sorry to sound like a bit of a novice, but each day our Exchange 2000 creates one or more files within //exchsrvr/mdbdata. They are named similar to E*.txt and are approximately 5MB in size. I can open the files using NOTEPAD but they just seem to contain jibberish. Can you tell me if these files can be deleted from time to time and what purpose they serve? Cheers Chris Forex Group Australia Pty Ltd Phone: 1300 366 881 Fax: 1300 366 882 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. Any view or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Silversands, or any of its subsidiary companies. If you have received this email in error, please contact our Support Desk immediately by telephone on 01202-36 or via email at [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
RE: MDB DATA FOLDER
Hehehe, No prob on the novice dude, but you really need to read up on exchange. How did you get stuck administering this box? Those are called transaction logs. Simple in short, they are part of a disaster recovery and database consistency routine that is very common in db server type applications. Don't mess with them, they are committed in full to the db when you do an online backup. Good luck, HTH. jlc -Original Message- From: Chris McNab [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 10:46 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: MDB DATA FOLDER Greetings All Sorry to sound like a bit of a novice, but each day our Exchange 2000 creates one or more files within //exchsrvr/mdbdata. They are named similar to E*.txt and are approximately 5MB in size. I can open the files using NOTEPAD but they just seem to contain jibberish. Can you tell me if these files can be deleted from time to time and what purpose they serve? Cheers Chris Forex Group Australia Pty Ltd Phone: 1300 366 881 Fax: 1300 366 882 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
RE: MDB DATA FOLDER
Oh yea, and I think you mean they are in the format E***.log for example, not E*.txt. jlc -Original Message- From: Joe L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 11:07 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: MDB DATA FOLDER Hehehe, No prob on the novice dude, but you really need to read up on exchange. How did you get stuck administering this box? Those are called transaction logs. Simple in short, they are part of a disaster recovery and database consistency routine that is very common in db server type applications. Don't mess with them, they are committed in full to the db when you do an online backup. Good luck, HTH. jlc -Original Message- From: Chris McNab [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 10:46 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: MDB DATA FOLDER Greetings All Sorry to sound like a bit of a novice, but each day our Exchange 2000 creates one or more files within //exchsrvr/mdbdata. They are named similar to E*.txt and are approximately 5MB in size. I can open the files using NOTEPAD but they just seem to contain jibberish. Can you tell me if these files can be deleted from time to time and what purpose they serve? Cheers Chris Forex Group Australia Pty Ltd Phone: 1300 366 881 Fax: 1300 366 882 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
RE: MDB DATA FOLDER
Don't touch them if you don't have too. However, on e2k I have a couple servers that will be fine all week and in a few hours the log files will take 20gigs of space. Not sure what the workaround was so I just enabled circular logging.. All seems well after that.. Good luck -Original Message- From: Chris McNab [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 12:46 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: MDB DATA FOLDER Greetings All Sorry to sound like a bit of a novice, but each day our Exchange 2000 creates one or more files within //exchsrvr/mdbdata. They are named similar to E*.txt and are approximately 5MB in size. I can open the files using NOTEPAD but they just seem to contain jibberish. Can you tell me if these files can be deleted from time to time and what purpose they serve? Cheers Chris Forex Group Australia Pty Ltd Phone: 1300 366 881 Fax: 1300 366 882 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
RE: MDB DATA FOLDER
isnt this indicative of a mail loop? haven't seen this happen to my boxes yet, so just from what I read here...any one offer any other causes? Thank you, Patrick Benjamin Zachary ben@advancedpcsolTo: MS-Exchange Admin Issues utions.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: 03/07/2002 12:08 Subject: RE: MDB DATA FOLDER AM Please respond to MS-Exchange Admin Issues Don't touch them if you don't have too. However, on e2k I have a couple servers that will be fine all week and in a few hours the log files will take 20gigs of space. Not sure what the workaround was so I just enabled circular logging.. All seems well after that.. Good luck -Original Message- From: Chris McNab [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 12:46 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: MDB DATA FOLDER Greetings All Sorry to sound like a bit of a novice, but each day our Exchange 2000 creates one or more files within //exchsrvr/mdbdata. They are named similar to E*.txt and are approximately 5MB in size. I can open the files using NOTEPAD but they just seem to contain jibberish. Can you tell me if these files can be deleted from time to time and what purpose they serve? Cheers Chris Forex Group Australia Pty Ltd Phone: 1300 366 881 Fax: 1300 366 882 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
