Re: Create Temp Exchange Store while performing Offline Defrag

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that space will be re-used...to reclaim that little space would not seem to
be sufficient reason for running a defrag...Exchange databases do not need
to be defragged for any "maintenance" purposes...

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Susan Conkey [MVP]



"jvt" <jvt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Kirill Palagin" wrote:

jvt wrote:
I have to perform a defrag on a client's 2000 exchange store (72GB).
Someone
had mentioned to me there may be a way to create a temporary store
which will
post emails sent to their domain while I have the real store offline
during
the defrag. Another issue with performing this particular defrag is
the
drive the store is on does not have enough room so I will have to copy
the
store to another server, perform the defrag from there and copy the
defrag
store back to it's original server location. I tried this over the
Thanksgiving weekend and after being offline for around 10 hrs the
defrag
failed at 80% with a buffer size error. Apparently there were some
extremely
important time sensitive emails which were sent and not recv'd in time
to act
on. This company is truly a 24/7/365 business and having their
exchange
offline is a real issue for them. So....is there a way to create a
temp
exchange store and perform an offline defrag so they don't have any
delays in
email delivery?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Apparently that is Enterprise edition of Exchange. It allows you to have
several storage groups, so you could just move all mailboxes from one
SG to another and take original SG offline for defrag (be sure to allow
InfoStore maintenance to do it's thing, so that offline defrag will be
able to consolidate data pages).
But as Susan said, find last 1221 events in App Event log and see how
much space you can get back before proceeding with this affair.


Thanks for the replies. The latest 1221 event says there is just over 5.5
GB of free space. I purged around 15 old user mailboxes (totalling around
15
GB of mailbox storage) which were never disabled by the old sys admin.
Also,
as far as I know this store has never been defragged.


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Relevant Pages

  • RE: Mailbox size
    ... I would go ahead and run offline defrag as well as isinteg on the store. ... The mailboxes was deleted more than a week ago and can not be seen in ESM. ...
    (microsoft.public.exchange.admin)
  • Re: Getting phyiscal disk size to match mailbox used space.
    ... of all the mailboxes in that store ... waited for online defrag to do its thing. ... completion of online IS maintenance) say about free space? ... run and did an offline defrag /d /p ...
    (microsoft.public.exchange.admin)
  • Re: priv1.edb wont shrink
    ... You'd get that incorrectly reported free space if you've not had an online defrag done so yes, forcing one would sort the problem. ... mailboxes, drop the store, delete the store, mount the store, move to ... correct folder if applicable, create the mailboxes, exmerge the stuff back ... The deleted mail retention time is 21 days. ...
    (microsoft.public.exchange2000.admin)
  • Re: Creating Many Databases In A Large Store to Do Defrags
    ... Thank you-this will help instead of the Defrag only some of the mailboxes are ... I would probably try to keep each store below 100GB. ... you should never need to do an offline defrag. ... databases it will help but I have tried to explain that if a whole bunch ...
    (microsoft.public.exchange.admin)
  • Re: defragging SBS (exchange) edb file not defragging
    ... You need to defrag the store using the ESETUIL with the the stores ... defrag, remount then the private store, do a defrag, remount. ... > free up space then go through an offline hassle. ...
    (microsoft.public.backoffice.smallbiz2000)