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Can I manually delete my Exchange 2010 transactions logs and start over?
While importing mail boxes from *.pst files into an Exchange 2010 database, the transaction logs filled up the C: drive. This caused the database to dismount. The mailbox database is on an E: drive. To free up space and allow the remaining mailboxes to import, I relocated the transaction logs to the E: drive as well. I figured that I could now run a 2008 VSS full copy of Exchange to backup the transaction logs and reduce their size. It backed up but gave me an error about failing the consistency check and didn't reduce the transaction log files. Can I dismount the database, kill the existing transaction log data and then re-point the transaction logs back to the C: drive to start over? This is a new install and just now coming into production. I know this will impact my recover options.
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MegaNuk3,
Used your advice to verify a clean shutdown and then deleted the transaction log files. After mounting the database again, new log files were created. I moved the location of the log files back to the C: drive again. I used the built-in Windows 2008 server backup utility to run a backup on the mailbox database and transaction logs. The backup completes successfully but says that it can't be used for recovery as the consistency check has failed. It also doesn't clean up the transaction log data. I also tried this process a day later and got the same error. Not sure if need to repeat the manual cleanup steps or create a new database and move the mailboxes.
Thanks.
Used your advice to verify a clean shutdown and then deleted the transaction log files. After mounting the database again, new log files were created. I moved the location of the log files back to the C: drive again. I used the built-in Windows 2008 server backup utility to run a backup on the mailbox database and transaction logs. The backup completes successfully but says that it can't be used for recovery as the consistency check has failed. It also doesn't clean up the transaction log data. I also tried this process a day later and got the same error. Not sure if need to repeat the manual cleanup steps or create a new database and move the mailboxes.
Thanks.
hmmm, are you still getting the same message?
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