SBS2k Exchange recovery - HELP!

All,

SBS2k, Exchange has hit the end-stops bigtime.
Ran offline defrag, and got system back up.. Client didn't have enough
time to offload anything before ISP did a 'Mail DB failover'. - This
resulted in the same emails coming in twice!
Exchange lasted 16 hours between the end of defrag to keeling over
again.
This time, there was also an event log entry saying that the disk with
Mdbdata on it had got to below 10MB free. - This not true.

Partitions set to run chkdsk, and server rebooted.

I presume there isn't a hack to increase the database size, as there is
in Exchange2003?

Is there a way to extract a mailbox from Exchange, when exchange won't
run?

If I did this, could I then uses eseutil to compact what was left, then
clear out a sizeable chunk, then get the extracted mailbox back in?

TIA,
Philip Partridge
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Relevant Pages

  • Re: exchange fragmentation issue.
    ... If you are close to the 16gb limit, and the users have deleted emails, doing an offline defrag will help immensely, especially if you have never done one before. ... just make sure that you have enough free disk space on the same partition where your exchange db is located. ... an occasional "waiting for echange server" at the client side. ... This should result in a contiguous pagefile of sufficient size to allow a dump, ...
    (microsoft.public.backoffice.smallbiz2000)
  • Re: exchange fragmentation issue.
    ... I haven't done an offline defrag before. ... where your exchange db is located. ... The virtual memory necessary to run your Exchange server is fragmented ... I would then creat a pagefile on C: ...
    (microsoft.public.backoffice.smallbiz2000)
  • Re: exchange fragmentation issue.
    ... The offline defrag work similary for SBS2000 or SBS2003 (that is, Exchange 2000 or Exchange 2003). ... Kevin Weilbacher [SBS MVP] ... This should result in a contiguous pagefile of sufficient size to allow a dump, ...
    (microsoft.public.backoffice.smallbiz2000)
  • Re: free space available in a mailbox store
    ... customer need not to run offline defrag regular. ... Microsoft CSS Online Newsgroup Support ... This newsgroup only focuses on Exchange technical issues. ...
    (microsoft.public.exchange2000.admin)
  • Re: Dismounting Exchange Stores
    ... our log files are plentiful. ... to dismount a store from the command line though......Infact is there are way ... to perform common exchange tasks from the command line in place of "System ... >> to do an offline defrag at least once every 10 days, ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs)
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