Nearing 16GB limit - Help on managing

From: Diane (Diane_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 01/01/05 

Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2005 09:07:15 -0800

We have an exchange 2000 standard installation where email use is suddenly
growing at a rapid rate due to an increase in large attachments and the
stated need to retain email for extremely long periods for legal reasons.
The firm is unwilling to enforce policies to remove the attachments, and
although they have gone through a concerted deletion process, the store
continues to grow. A complicating factor is their backup system for exchange
is also now two tapes (backing up the mailboxes and store) so the backup does
not finish until well into the next day (it must wait for someone to arrive
in the AM and put in the 2nd tape). As a result, the private store defrag
does not complete overnight.

I would greatly appreciate advice on the following:
- any utilities we can run to maximize the efficiency of the space available
from deletions.
- the impact of the private store defrag not completing. The logs state it
will resume when the backup completes...does that mean during the next
maintenance cycle or immediately after the backup completes. I cannot find
any 2nd reference in the event logs indicating the defrag has resumed, other
then during the maintenance cycle (when the backup issue occurs again).
- Should they hit the 16GB ceiling, how can we recover? I understand email
will "stop". Is there a way to delete after the "stoppage" and recover
space? Our goal is not to get to this point, but we want to be prepared.

They are now considering going to Exchange 2003 Advanced Version, however,
the decision process will not be a quick one.

Thanks very much for all help.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: NTBackup finished the backup with errors.
    ... I don't use the Exchange attachment blocking, I prefer to let Trend Scanmail ... attachments - because as you've noticed, ... > I will do the Symantec install and try the Backup tonight. ... it seems you've got infected files in the recycle bin (.pif's ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs)
  • Re: Nearing 16GB limit - Help on managing
    ... If you are using a 3rd party backup sush as Veritas you could consider ... > We have an exchange 2000 standard installation where email use is suddenly ... > is also now two tapes (backing up the mailboxes and store) so the backup ... > - the impact of the private store defrag not completing. ...
    (microsoft.public.exchange2000.admin)
  • Re: server filling up
    ... displays the Exchange server. ... To perform an 'Exchange aware backup' only, ... tell) yesterday after i moved the 2008 log files (i didn't move the ... Outlook should never be installed on the SBS. ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs)
  • RE: SBS 2003 Backup
    ... System State and Exchange 2003 store into one backup: ... '820272 Backup Operation Fails When You Back Up Exchange Server 2003 ... Store respectively. ... Click "Administrative Groups". ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs)
  • Re: best way to recreate a mailbox
    ... BPA is telling me that I have both Trend SMTP scanning and SMEX scanning, ... > coincidental - could stopping and restarting all the Exchange services ... >> others work fine, sometimes all clients hang. ... >> There is also a problem, likely related, with Backup Exec. ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs)