Re: Database Size Management

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From: Neil Hobson [MVP] (neil.hobson_at_nospam.silversands.co.uk)
Date: 02/16/05 

Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 14:08:22 -0000

It could be worth it if you can suffer the downtime. However, how long will
it take to increase the database size again by 5.6GB? Make sure you've got
reasonable size limits in place to make the offline defrag worth it in the
first place. :) 

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Neil Hobson
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"Animatrix1" <Animatrix1@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:AA71DD4A-4510-4B48-8425-D5D604FFD496@microsoft.com...
> Using Exchange 2003 Enterprise, my 1221 events show that we have 5674MB of
> free space.  The edb file is approx. 35GB and the stm is 10GB.
>
> Is it worth it to run an offline defrag? I am trying to reduce the number 
> of
> DLT cartridges used during the nightly backups.
>
>

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