Re: exchange logs killing me

From: Dustin Trapani (anon_at_napster.com)
Date: 01/13/05 

Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 10:15:01 -0500

I reviewed the information you posted but I didn't understand how to turn on
circular logging. Can you walk me through it?

"Matt Gibson" <mattg@blueedgetech.ca> wrote in message
news:uqVSh709EHA.3708@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> Sounds like you're not doing exchange aware backups, or not doing backups
> at all.
>
> If you're okay with that, you might want to turn on circular logging.
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314605&sd=tech
>
> -Matt
>
> "Dustin Trapani" <dustin underscore trapani@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:eev0o209EHA.1300@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
>> 9.15 gigabytes... That's how much I found in my C:\Program
>> Files\Exchsrvr\MDBDATA directory. There was something like 1700 files,
>> all part of a series named 'E0000000.log'.
>>
>> This has been causing sever disk space problems, as you can imagine. How
>> can I get exchange to stop filling the drive? I really am not using
>> exchange so I don't mind turning off logging.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>

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