Re: Information Store Database Size

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Mark is right, and keep in mind that having tons of pst files out there
will mean there are multiple copies of emails on the network, you have no
way to recover those items, if the pst file gets damaged or accidentally
deleted, and you have no control over the data, either...much better to
upgrade...sounds like you're in a position where that's absolutely what you
need to do...

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Susan Conkey [MVP]



"Mark Arnold [MVP]" <mark@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:43:46 -0400, "Yorgy" <yorgy_i@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Hello,

We have MS Exchange 2003 SP2 standard installed on a Windows Server 2003
system.

Our database has reached 74Gb and growing...I have performed an offline
defrag once and it performs an online defrag every night. If we applied
quotas to have people archive email and delete very old messages for
mailboxes exceeding 1Gb, will the database decrease in size with online
defragmentation, or will I have to do another offline defrag? Will this
make
a difference on the database itself?

Can someone please help.

Thank you
Yorgy
If it's growing there's not much point in doing an offline defrag.
Database growth means there's no white space inside it for new mail to
slide into. If you look at your event id 1221 you'll see that.
Since you have standard edition you're obviously going to have the
database stop at some point in the near future.

Can you move to Exchange 2007?
Can you move to 2003 Enterprise?

If the above answers are both no you're going to have to do something
painful which is to impose limits and then have users drag tons of
email out to PST files. Horrible advice but it is what it is.


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