Re: offline defrag

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i would be wary of anyone who uses eseutil to perform "maintenance" on an
Exchange database once a month...I have been running Exchange for almost 10
years, and done probably a handful of defrags...the tool was not intended
for regular "maintenance"...

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Susan Conkey [MVP]



"Mike Talon" <miketalonnyc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Bear in mind that your database is being defragmented, nightly if you
didn't
change the default maintenance schedule. However, as you're noticing, the
white space (which should now all be at the end of the database) isn't
actually removed until you do an offline maintenance.

That being said, most of the Exchange folks I work with tend to offline
maintain about once per month, using ESEUtil. You can use external storage
as swap space if needed, and an external USB 2.0 hard disk is a slower,
but
very useful tool if you don't have enough local disk space.

Hope it helps.


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Mike Talon
www.miketalon.com
miketalonnyc@<NOSPAM>yahoo.com


"SW" <SW@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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How often do you defrag your Exchange 2003 DB's? We have a high turn
over
of
people coming in and leaving (sales environment) so when I look at the
Event
1221 it says the there is a few gig of free space if defragged.

one database says 88gig! but we don't have enough space to defrag it.

Do any of you use 3rd party tools, or the eseutil?




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