Re: Isinteg and Eseutil

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From: Andy Rath [MVP Exchange] (andy.rath_at_promptsolutions.de)
Date: 02/23/05


Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 18:04:11 +0100

Hi Eric,

"Sabo, Eric" <SaboEric@discussions.microsoft.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:8EE7050C-CBE2-4CF1-B8AB-9848FD8B18AB@microsoft.com...
> Andy,
> I am not using them just to use them.

sorry for that. Some guys are really donīt know what they have to do with
there spare time...

> We are going to delete a lot of
> accounts from our databases plus our backups are taking forever. That
> is
> why I want to use eseutil to shrink the database. I have +110 space as
> needed. The reason why I want to run the isinteg is because we are
> getting
> event ID 1025 which leads me to believe that there is some sort of
> corruption.

ok, delete all the accounts you have to, make a defrag with eseutil and run
isinteg at the end.

But first of all run backup! ;-)

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;247616
(1025?)

cheers,
Andy

> This is under Exchange 2003 SP1.
>
>
>
> "Andy Rath [MVP Exchange]" wrote:
>
>> Hi Eric,
>>
>> "Sabo, Eric" <SaboEric@discussions.microsoft.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
>> news:C578771D-EB59-4DFC-9859-8F2F2942A91C@microsoft.com...
>> >I want to do some maintanance on my private information stores, they
>> >average
>> > about 20 GB. This is Exchange 2003. Which tool do I wan to run
>> > first?
>> > I am assuming I want to run eseutil first.
>>
>> Both tools have several parameters. Take a lot at support.microsoft.com .
>> Never use eseutil and isinteg just because you want to. These are
>> "lowlevel"-tools which can also harm your Databases. But they also have
>> some
>> "read only" switches for consitencychecking.
>>
>> Defraging your databases with eseutil needs up to 110% free diskspace of
>> the
>> original dbs. This is also risky and may be sensless if your Exchange
>> allocates the free space immideately again.
>> You may use an offline copy of your databases on an Testexchange Server
>> to
>> try defraging and other stuff. Databases havenīt to be mounted for most
>> operations.
>>
>> > Then followed by isinteg.
>> > Does anyone have a approx time that it will take these two tools to run
>> > on
>> > a
>> > 20 GB store file.
>>
>> The time itīll take strongly depends on your Hardware. So thereīs no
>> general
>> answer. You may do this on an weekend ;-)
>>
>> cheers,
>> Andy
>>
>>
>>
>>



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