Re: Exchange Transaction Logs Issue
- From: "Steve Laws" <SteveLaws@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 14:56:02 -0800
Karl,
thanks for the reply. I did as you said but unfortunately the logs still
exist.
Is there another angle to attack this from?
Regards
Steve
"Karl Middleton" wrote:
> Steve,
>
> If you are confident that your Livestate Recovery is backing up your
> Exchange database properly you don't need to use SBS backup at all.
>
> Go into Exchange System Manager and select Servers | ServerName | First
> Storage Group and right click. Select Properties from the menu and tick
> Circular Logging and click OK. Restart your server and the myriad of log
> files will miraculously disappear.
>
> Only do this if you are 100% certain the livewire recovery is backing up the
> Exchange database. You lose the ability to replay log files in event of a
> failure. This is because circular logging commits the log files to the
> database immediately.
>
> Karl from Oz
>
>
> "Steve Laws" <SteveLaws@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:B0766720-1DA0-4013-B8CD-13FA375FACF6@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Our exchange logs now total 49.20GB.
> > The total number of logs has reached 8796 going back as far as 7 months
> > ago.
> > Every day approximately 53 Log files are created with each log file being
> > 5120KB in size.
> >
> > Our exchange databases are on a raid 5 partition along with the
> > Transaction
> > log files and deleted items/email retention period is 60 days.
> >
> > I recently defragged the exhange stores (Both Public and Private) and both
> > databases sit at around the 5 - 7 Gig Mark each and haven't grown much
> > over
> > the last couple of months.
> >
> > What I would like to know is whether or not this is normal? At this rate
> > we
> > will run out of disk space in the next 22 days so I would like to know
> > what I
> > can do to reduce the number of logfiles being held.
> >
> > I understand there importance in a disaster recovery scenario but we have
> > regular back ups (Incremental 3 times Daily using Livestate Recovery)
> > which
> > are tested quarterly for integrity so I don't see an issue with only
> > having 3
> > months worth of log files.
> >
> > I am not an exchange Guru so any help would be appreciated.
> >
> > I also noted in one post some months ago that it was stated that the SBS
> > backup (or any Exchange Aware backup programme )should clean these logs
> > out.
> > When I go to "System Manager >> Servers >> Servername >> Servername
> > Properties >> and look at Time of Last Backup" it says that this type of
> > backup was never performed.
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Microsoft State that providing the databases have been dismounted and are
> > in
> > a clean state that deletion of log files is not an issue as Exchange will
> > either start a new log or start at the last log used (eg Delete all except
> > for the last 7 Days).
> > Not sure if this is the best way to do it so I would appreciate some
> > feedback.
> >
> > regards
> > Steve
>
>
>
.
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