RE: MDBDATA Folder

2010-01-26 Thread Cameron Cooper
[mailto:richard.osbo...@wth.org] Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 4:09 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: MDBDATA Folder I get 3-4gb of logs a day, so that seems okay to me. 4000 mailboxes, Exchange 2003SP2 on Server 2003. Is that out of the norm? Thanks. -Original Message

RE: MDBDATA Folder

2010-01-26 Thread John Cook
Issues Subject: RE: MDBDATA Folder We only have 50-60 users here and one Exchange 2003 server. _ Cameron Cooper System Administrator | CompTIA A+ Certified Aurico Reports, Inc Phone: 847-890-4021 | Fax: 847-255-1896 ccoo...@aurico.com | www.aurico.com -Original

RE: MDBDATA Folder

2010-01-25 Thread Osborne, Richard
Subject: RE: MDBDATA Folder 23GB of logs in 7 days? That's one busy storage group! -Original Message- From: bounce-8796511-8066...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com [mailto:bounce-8796511-8066...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] On Behalf Of Cameron Cooper Sent: 19 January 2010 17:34 To: MS-Exchange Admin

RE: MDBDATA Folder

2010-01-25 Thread Michael B. Smith
No. That's pretty light, actually. -Original Message- From: Osborne, Richard [mailto:richard.osbo...@wth.org] Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 5:09 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: MDBDATA Folder I get 3-4gb of logs a day, so that seems okay to me. 4000 mailboxes, Exchange

RE: MDBDATA Folder

2010-01-20 Thread Sobey, Richard A
A+ Certified Aurico Reports, Inc Phone: 847-890-4021 | Fax: 847-255-1896 ccoo...@aurico.com | www.aurico.com -Original Message- From: James Wells [mailto:jam...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 11:22 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: MDBDATA Folder Another question not asked

RE: MDBDATA Folder

2010-01-19 Thread Damien Solodow
Maybe. Safest solution is to run an Exchange aware full backup of the Information Store. It will automatically purge log files after completing. From: Cameron Cooper [mailto:ccoo...@aurico.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 11:32 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: MDBDATA Folder

RE: MDBDATA Folder

2010-01-19 Thread Richard Stovall
NO! When’s the last time you backed up the store? From: Cameron Cooper [mailto:ccoo...@aurico.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 11:32 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: MDBDATA Folder Exchange new-be here… looking on our exchange server under the following folder

Re: MDBDATA Folder

2010-01-19 Thread Harry Singh
Not really. Take a look at this article. http://www.msexchange.org/articles/Transaction-Logs-Lifeblood-Exchange.html On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Cameron Cooper ccoo...@aurico.com wrote: Exchange new-be here… looking on our exchange server under the following folder \Exchsrvr\MDBDATA

RE: MDBDATA Folder

2010-01-19 Thread Michael B. Smith
Almost certainly not. Log files get deleted when you get a good full backup of the Exchange information store using an Exchange-aware backup. From: Cameron Cooper [mailto:ccoo...@aurico.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 11:32 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: MDBDATA Folder Exchange

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2010-01-19 Thread Cameron Cooper
, Inc Phone: 847-890-4021 | Fax: 847-255-1896 ccoo...@aurico.com | www.aurico.com From: Richard Stovall [mailto:richard.stov...@researchdata.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 10:35 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: MDBDATA Folder NO! When’s the last time you backed up

RE: MDBDATA Folder

2010-01-19 Thread Richard Stovall
: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 11:44 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: MDBDATA Folder I don’t think that there has ever been a backup of the store made. We run Backup Exec with the Exchange agent on that server. Is there a different backup that we should be running

RE: MDBDATA Folder

2010-01-19 Thread Cameron Cooper
Issues Subject: RE: MDBDATA Folder In BE 12.5 the option to flush committed logs is configured under the backup job: Settings | Microsoft Exchange | Information Store Backups and the options are either “Full - Database Logs (flush committed logs)” or “Incremental - Logs (flush committed

Re: MDBDATA Folder

2010-01-19 Thread Harry Singh
, January 19, 2010 10:51 AM *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: MDBDATA Folder In BE 12.5 the option to flush committed logs is configured under the backup job: Settings | Microsoft Exchange | Information Store Backups and the options are either “Full - Database Logs (flush

Re: MDBDATA Folder

2010-01-19 Thread James Wells
Another question not asked...are these log files RECENT? i.e. How old is the newest file? If they correlate to a store that has been deleted or the log path was moved, BE won't purge that location after backup completes... --James On 1/19/10, Cameron Cooper ccoo...@aurico.com wrote: Exchange

RE: MDBDATA Folder

2010-01-19 Thread Cameron Cooper
Reports, Inc Phone: 847-890-4021 | Fax: 847-255-1896 ccoo...@aurico.com | www.aurico.com -Original Message- From: James Wells [mailto:jam...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 11:22 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: MDBDATA Folder Another question not asked...are these log

RE: MDBDATA Folder

2010-01-19 Thread Richard Stovall
Could all be normal then. What are the backup settings (multiple jobs?), and when did a backup last run? -Original Message- From: Cameron Cooper [mailto:ccoo...@aurico.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 12:34 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: MDBDATA Folder The oldest log

RE: MDBDATA Folder

2010-01-19 Thread Cameron Cooper
[mailto:richard.stov...@researchdata.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 11:38 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: MDBDATA Folder Could all be normal then. What are the backup settings (multiple jobs?), and when did a backup last run? -Original Message- From: Cameron Cooper

RE: MDBDATA folder

2002-07-29 Thread Tom Meunier
I'm astounded that google doesn't give you over 10,000 hits on this. Do a proper online backup of your Exchange store per the disaster recovery whitepaper. -Original Message- From: Garland Mac Neill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 10:45 AM To: MS-Exchange

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2002-07-29 Thread Tom Meunier
Here ya go. This link I found on google is just too cool. Maybe Microsoft is playing with new links. Or maybe I just haven't seen one in this format: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=1714 -Original Message- From: Garland Mac Neill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday,

RE: MDBDATA folder

2002-07-29 Thread William Lefkovics
Title: Message Circular logging = overwriting logs. That said, the MTA should shut down when there are 10MB of free space remaining. You should have the transaction logs on a partition allowing a few days worth of traffic. William -Original Message-From: Garland Mac

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2002-07-29 Thread Ben Winzenz
Title: Message Probably because you aren't doing full online backups. You also don't seem to understand circular logging. If circular logging is disabled, the logs will NOT be overwritten. If circular logging is enabled, they will be overwritten. I'm not suggesting to enable circular

RE: MDBDATA folder

2002-07-29 Thread Nick Combellack
If you want your transaction logs to be over written then you should enable Circular logging. -Original Message- From: Garland Mac Neill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 29 July 2002 16:45 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: MDBDATA folder Hopefully someone can

RE: MDBDATA folder

2002-07-29 Thread Martin Blackstone
Title: Message If circular logging is off, then the system will continue to write logs until it is either backed up properly with an Exchange aware backup program, or in your case until the disk is full. What are you backing up with? -Original Message-From: Garland Mac Neill

RE: MDBDATA folder

2002-07-29 Thread Andy David
Title: Message A steering wheel and a craned neck. -Original Message-From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 11:47 AMTo: MS-Exchange Admin IssuesSubject: RE: MDBDATA folder If circular logging is off, then the system

RE: MDBDATA folder

2002-07-29 Thread Gano, David
Title: Message Make sure you've got a good backup software that specifically has exchange capabilities -- the backup software will cycle your logs for you. Rules of thumb (for me, at least): - Nocircular logging - Make sure, without fail, that backups succeed. -Original

RE: MDBDATA folder

2002-07-29 Thread Garland Mac Neill
full. -Original Message- From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 9:47 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: MDBDATA folder If circular logging is off, then the system will continue to write logs until it is either backed up properly

RE: MDBDATA folder

2002-07-29 Thread William Lefkovics
Title: Message I always do nightly full. It makes the restore process cleaner, too. -Original Message-From: Garland Mac Neill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 9:00 AMTo: MS-Exchange Admin IssuesSubject: RE: MDBDATA folder Legato and it’s set

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2002-07-29 Thread Matthew Carpenter
Title: Message O crud. I am glad this came up. I forgot to disable it on my new 55 machine!! Thanks Garland! - Original Message - From: William Lefkovics To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 11:03 AM Subject: RE: MDBDATA folder I always

RE: MDBDATA folder

2002-07-29 Thread William Lefkovics
Title: Message But then the loggers' unions get all upset because they have to contend with dizzy lumberjacks. -Original Message-From: Nick Combellack [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 8:50 AMTo: MS-Exchange Admin IssuesSubject: RE: MDBDATA folder

RE: MDBDATA folder

2002-07-29 Thread Garland Mac Neill
: MDBDATA folder O crud. I am glad this came up. I forgot to disable it on my new 55 machine!! Thanks Garland! - Original Message - From: William Lefkovics To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 11:03 AM Subject: RE: MDBDATA folder

RE: MDBDATA folder

2002-07-29 Thread Erik Sojka
folder I always do nightly full. It makes the restore process cleaner, too. -Original Message-From: Garland Mac Neill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 9:00 AMTo: MS-Exchange Admin IssuesSubject: RE: MDBDATA folder Legato

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2002-07-29 Thread Kent, Larry SYNETICS
Title: Message bump or dump? -Original Message-From: Erik Sojka [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 12:34 PMTo: MS-Exchange Admin IssuesSubject: RE: MDBDATA folder I also take a full bump every night. I sometimes don't get the cleaning process

RE: MDBDATA folder

2002-07-29 Thread Andy David
Title: Message hump -Original Message-From: Kent, Larry SYNETICS [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 12:41 PMTo: MS-Exchange Admin IssuesSubject: RE: MDBDATA folder bump or dump? -Original Message-From: Erik Sojka [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: MDBDATA folder

2002-07-29 Thread David N. Precht
Title: Message No personal information requested, thanks anyways ;) -Original Message-From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 12:50To: MS-Exchange Admin IssuesSubject: RE: MDBDATA folder dump in the morning, hump at night

RE: MDBDATA Folder and Transaction logs

2002-07-23 Thread William Lefkovics
Title: Message Move mailbox creates transaction logs. The bigger the mailbox to move, the greater the transaction logs. Is the partition holding this instnace of te MDBDATA folder sufficiently sized? -Original Message-From: Garland Mac Neill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]