Re: Exchange 2003 Storage Group Space Problem !

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From: Neal (neal__at__ap0yar_dot_co_dot_nz)
Date: 05/27/04 

Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 21:44:27 +1200

Have you remembered that Deleted Items and Mailbox Retention settings will
take up a lot of space? If a user deletes 100MB worth of mail one day, and
you have the setting set to retain it for 20 days, then the mailbox space
will not equal the IS size.

Also, we had a problem in that the online processes did not have time to do
their thing (identify free space) so we changed when it ran. Have you done
an offline defrag? You are going to have fun doing that too, as you are
going to need about 120-130GB free space to do it.

I'm curious too. With files that big, how long do they take to back up?

Neal

"Ken Yu" <hykh080.hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:eVsHtw8QEHA.3728@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
>
>
> I have some big problem in Exchange 2003 Storage Group, i have
> one Exchange 2003 Server Enterprise Edition with Windows 2000 Server
> Standard Edition in the network, the total space for all "Storage Group"
is
> 200GB, now used 112GB but i checked the total size of all mailbox is used
> 80GB in Exchange System Manager, I already set the option to reuse the log
> file for each storage group, i don't know why the number of physical used
> space and the number of mailbox used space have a big different, i checked
> Event log from this mail server, this mail server have release a number of
> free space each night, but the physical space does not decrease !
>
>
> Please help !
>
> Tks a Lot !
> Ken Yu
>
>
>

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