Re: Sudden growth to the Priv DB, unable to shrink using offline defra

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I would hazard a guess that the growth was due to the creation of a number
of items, and correcting the situation entailed deleting them. In that
case, you would not be able to recover the space until:

1. The deleted items retention period expires
2. The next online maintenance after the deleted items retention period
runs
3. Online defrag completes after the above two items.

At that point you should see the space reflected in the event id 1221 and
could run an offline defrag.


"Simon" <Simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hello all,

We are running exchange 2000 with the GFi Faxmaker connector service.

The Priv1 database suddenly grew to 6.74Gb because of an error with the
Faxmaker connector. The mailboxes only account for 150Mb as the server is
almost unused.

Clearing the inbound fax queues and restarting the Faxmaker connector
service halted the growth but now we (and GFi support) are unsure how to
shrink the DB.

EC 1221 in the app log shows that there is only 91Mb of white space. Hence
my attempts to run an offline defrag using eseutil were unsuccessful in
shrinking the DB.

All other checks show the database is ok - integrity etc.

If anyone has any suggestions they would be very welcome,

Kind regards, Simon.


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