Re: Exchange Transaction Logs Issue

Thanks Karl,

I restarted the services. I will give the server a reboot tonight and see if
that makes any differrence.

regards
Steve

"Karl Middleton" wrote:

> 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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