Re: Exchange Transaction Logs Issue
- From: "Karl Middleton" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 17:58:35 +1100
Did you reboot the server, or at the least, restart the Exchange services?
Just ticking the box is not enough.
"Steve Laws" <SteveLaws@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:CE11D1FD-AD2C-4B01-96EA-933A6F56FA71@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 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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