Re: Growing Exchange store problem

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Hi,

The online defrag for last night shows 118mb free space. We use Arcserve to
do 'brick level' backups and the timings do not conflict.

Retention is set to 0 (no retention)

My concern here is that it is growing when only being read. Is there any
tool that will look at the contents of the db at a low level? I can't find
anything that will show me whats in there.

Could the database be corrupt? Should we plan for an exmerge to create a new
store?

Thanks again.

"Mark Arnold [MVP]" wrote:

> On Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:17:03 -0700, "GBAS" <gavinator@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> >Hi,
> >
> >I have an Exchange 2003 Standard server that was happily running for 18
> >months. We purchased and installed reporting application to monitor usage. It
> >runs as a service and uses ExOleDB to pull data from the Exchange store. The
> >developer has indicated that it is 'read only' to the database. However,
> >every time it runs we see instant and significant growth in the DB. We
> >actually upgraded to Enterprise before we discovered this problem (5000
> >dollars wasted!).
> >
> >The database is now sitting at 22gig but ESM mailbox sizes only add up to
> >3.5 gig. Previous offline defrags have not shown significant shrinkage. We
> >are not Exchange experts and are out of ideas. Any suggestions as to why this
> >is happening or what tools we can use to look at the database would be
> >appreciated.
> >
> >We think it may be some setting in Exchange but can find anything. All
> >logging apears to be turned off.
> >
> >Thanks in advance
>
> What do online defrags show (event 1221)? Make sure your backup window
> is outside the maintenance window so that maintenance isn't curtailed
> by backup http://support.microsoft.com/?id=555323 Check deleted item
> retention to make sure that the items you suspect this "non" read only
> system has dumped in it are/may be gone.
>
.

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