Offline defrag

Hi all,

I am new to exchange, we have recently migrated from lotus notes, where
users had unquoted mail files. When we have moved to exchange 2003, we have
decided to introduce quota with the mail system. so we've created couple
mail stores - 8 in total - and moved users about.

since we've moved users about, out database grew from 370gig to 680gig. I
have checked the event log and there is a lot 1221 event id, it seems that
each mail store has approximately 10gig of free space.

the other thing, our backup has also taking hit, it is extremely slow, it
takes forever to backup. the exchange through put for the backup has takes a
huge performance hit. I think the backup time interferes with online
defrag, I know the obvious thing to do is run the backup another time, but
because of the size of the databases being backed it is continuously backing
24/7.

I have heard about eseutil, but alot of people are advising against it, I
don't have a recent backup either, I want to fix all this issues before it
becomes a nightmare.

please advice.


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