MDBDATA Log files

Bob Engler · Joined: 21 Dec 2007 Posts: 3

I have MS Exchange 2003 that I just inheirited support for. The server is a
HP Raid5 with 203GB total. I am down to 6.4GB free space. When I look at the
C:\Program Files\Exchsrvr\MDBDATA, it is using 177GB of space. The 3 .edb
files are about 16GB total and the 2 .stm files are about 19GB total and the
rest, over
29,500 files, are .log files. I'm a linux guy thrown into the Windows world
and it's the Holidays so I'm can't even find support. Anything would be
greatly appreciated as I see the server running out of space about next
Friday. One support person told me I would have to take the system offline
for 2 - 8 days to capture the "whitespace". When I look at the mailboxes, I
see about 1.5 GB of deleted space. It is set to purge or whatever it's called
in 7 days.

My question is...what are those log files and can I do something with them
to get space back. Some of them are from 2004. I will give up my Christmas to
get something done as that and Thanksgiving are the only days we don't work.

Thanks in advance......

Archived from group: microsoft>public>exchange2000>information>store

Leif Pedersen [ MVP] · Joined: 05 Aug 2007 Posts: 232

Hi,

These files are exchange server transaction log files and they should be
purged by running a full backup of the information store by an exchange
aware backup program (such as ntbackup).

Don't remove these files manually.

Leif

"Bob Engler" skrev i meddelelsen @microsoft.com...
>I have MS Exchange 2003 that I just inheirited support for. The server is a
> HP Raid5 with 203GB total. I am down to 6.4GB free space. When I look at
> the
> C:\Program Files\Exchsrvr\MDBDATA, it is using 177GB of space. The 3 .edb
> files are about 16GB total and the 2 .stm files are about 19GB total and
> the
> rest, over
> 29,500 files, are .log files. I'm a linux guy thrown into the Windows
> world
> and it's the Holidays so I'm can't even find support. Anything would be
> greatly appreciated as I see the server running out of space about next
> Friday. One support person told me I would have to take the system offline
> for 2 - 8 days to capture the "whitespace". When I look at the mailboxes,
> I
> see about 1.5 GB of deleted space. It is set to purge or whatever it's
> called
> in 7 days.
>
> My question is...what are those log files and can I do something with them
> to get space back. Some of them are from 2004. I will give up my Christmas
> to
> get something done as that and Thanksgiving are the only days we don't
> work.
>
> Thanks in advance......

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