RE: Diskeeper and Exchange

2003-12-16 Thread Ben Winzenz
You mean aside from the fact that Diskeeper will not be able to defrag the drive the databases are on because the database is an open file that cannot be locked for exclusive use? Other than that, there shouldn't be any problem with running Diskeeper on the other drives. Log files are written seq

RE: Diskeeper and Exchange

2003-12-16 Thread Anthony Sollars
We run it just fine here on our exchange 5.5 & 2003 without incident. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lori Sagert Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 11:57 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Diskeeper and Exchange Hello All: I would like

Re: Diskeeper and Exchange

2003-12-16 Thread Timothy Schilbach
Hi There, Be careful if your Infromation Store is over 4gb as things live AV and disk keep can corrupt your exchange box. Here is what I recommend: 1. Only run disk keeper after shutting off the exchange serverices 2. do an offline defrag of exchange every 3 months (to get rid of chain corrup

RE: Diskeeper and Exchange

2003-12-16 Thread Eric Fretz
If the Exchange IS databases are on their own drives (AND THEY SHOULD BE!) then the drive / array will not become fragmented because Exchange uses online degramentation to keep the databases tidy. Diskeeper will be useless because the only thing that it will do is try to reassmble file fragments i

RE: Diskeeper and Exchange

2003-12-16 Thread Anthony Sollars
t: RE: Diskeeper and Exchange We run it just fine here on our exchange 5.5 & 2003 without incident. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lori Sagert Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 11:57 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Diskeeper and Exchan

RE: Diskeeper and Exchange

2003-12-16 Thread Ben Winzenz
neer Gardner & White (317) 581-1580 ext 418 -Original Message- From: Anthony Sollars [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Posted At: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 3:52 PM Posted To: Exchange (Swynk) Conversation: Diskeeper and Exchange Subject: RE: Diskeeper and Exchange To clarify, we only

RE: Diskeeper and Exchange

2003-12-16 Thread Ken Cornetet
: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Diskeeper and Exchange That works fine, but I seriously doubt that you are gaining much from it. How often does your OS drive change? Exchange tends to use physical memory rather than the pagefile, and you don't often install programs, or create documents and su

RE: Diskeeper and Exchange

2003-12-17 Thread Roger Seielstad
> Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 3:03 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Diskeeper and Exchange > > > We run it just fine here on our exchange 5.5 & 2003 without incident. > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PR

RE: Diskeeper and Exchange

2003-12-17 Thread John Matteson
Hey all; Lori: I run RAXCO's PerfectDisk on my servers, mostly cause it has the capability of running ESEUTIL from a GUI, which is easier to explain to some people rather than a command line. But I digress. Unless you are doing a lot of purging and expanding of your Messa

RE: Diskeeper and Exchange

2003-12-17 Thread Sagert, Lori
. I had no choice;)That's a whole other story. Thanks again! Lori -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of John Matteson Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 11:52 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Diskeeper and Exchange Hey all; Lori:

RE: Diskeeper and Exchange the final word ?

2002-04-22 Thread Kevin Miller
NO!!! NEVER run any DEFAG on anything EXCHANGE.. Period. It runs it's own defrag online. --Kevinm TSSSBE, M, WLKMMAS, UCC+WCA, And Beyond http://www.daughtry.ca/ For Graphics and WebDesign, GO here! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Jean

Re: Diskeeper and Exchange the final word ?

2002-04-22 Thread Daniel Chenault
Let's get this straight once and for all... Diskeeper does a file-level defrag of the hard-drive. It does not touch what is inside the files, just gathers the fragments together. Exchange databases do get fragmented, but _internally_ to their structure. Diskeeper will not touch that fragmentatio

Re: Diskeeper and Exchange the final word ?

2002-04-22 Thread Jean-Francois Bourdeau
onday, April 22, 2002 8:11 PM Subject: Re: Diskeeper and Exchange the final word ? > Let's get this straight once and for all... > > Diskeeper does a file-level defrag of the hard-drive. It does not touch what > is inside the files, just gathers the fragments together. > &g

Re: Diskeeper and Exchange the final word ?

2002-04-22 Thread Glenn Corbett
ECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 10:11 AM Subject: Re: Diskeeper and Exchange the final word ? > Let's get this straight once and for all... > > Diskeeper does a file-level defrag of the hard-drive. It does not touch what > is inside the files, just gathers the fragmen

Re: Diskeeper and Exchange the final word ?

2002-04-22 Thread Jean-Francois Bourdeau
le itself split everywhere on the partition ) JF - Original Message - From: "Glenn Corbett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 8:48 PM Subject: Re: Diskeeper and Exchange the final word ? > Daniel

Re: Diskeeper and Exchange the final word ?

2002-04-22 Thread Daniel Chenault
tting) and not hurting performance (not enough to be noticeable). - Original Message - From: "Glenn Corbett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 7:48 PM Subject: Re: Diskeeper and Exchange the final wor

RE: Diskeeper and Exchange the final word ?

2002-04-23 Thread Roger Seielstad
> -Original Message- > From: Jean-Francois Bourdeau [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 8:53 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: Re: Diskeeper and Exchange the final word ? > > > Thanks Glen...Good point > > but can Diskeeper do a good job