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2095 Log Files in the Exchange Directory - running out of space.

Thanks.

OK- it's obvious I need to do some housekeeping. The server began to choke Thursday and I had to delete a lot of files (that were expendable) to avert a meltdown.

The Exchsrvr/MDBData directory (on D Drive) is piling up with .log files and there's only 4GB of drive space left on this 30 GB partition servicing some 60 users in an agency type environment. There are like 40 log files @ 5mb each all modified today - 2095 log files total.

The mailbox storage list currently lists no excessive hoarders. There are limits set on all boxes.

My M Drive suddenly has less than 4GB free also.

More Strangeness:
All the log files appear to have been modified on just a few different days

Question: Is it safe to remove or delete some of these files and if so - how?

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mmurray46

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Thanks. The link was VERY helpful. We did, in fact, discover that we had not set an exclusion in our anti-virus software on the M drive as mentioned as a prime suspect in this article. I am a bit puzzled regarding your reference to our backup not running and that being a potential suspect. We do use an Exchange aware backup program (Retrospect by Dantz). Are you suggesting that we run another backup program?

ikm7176

I did suggested to check your backup software, one of the prime suspect for growing transaction log files. If you are running backup using exchange aware software then the transaction log files are automatically deleted. As you are already having exchange aware backup program, you shouldn't worry about it.

Infact you discovered that anti-virus software was the culprit. setting exclusions in your antivirus software will solve your problem.

cheers!

plannett

I checked out the post http://blogs.msdn.com/exchange/archive/2004/05/10/129149.aspx which was especially helpful.

This was not the problem though as I knew to look out for most of those. After checking into a problem I had with a MAC I found that one of the MAC clients had a problem with Entourage (outlook for MAC's). They had a rather large email in their outbox 20+MB's. by default there is no size column and even they didn't think the file should have been anywhere near that big, therefore they did not understand why they kept getting an error.
Entourage like outlook, keeps trying to do a continous send/receive which keeps getting logged in Exchange.

I had to setup a trigger in Exchange System Manager, Adminstrative groups / first administrative group / servers / server properties/ monitoring tab, and added a free space threshold, so I could at least be notified before it shut down the Information Store which did happen to me once.

We deleted the email out of Entourage and I have been keepign an eye on the email sever logs for an hour now and it hasn't been creating log file after log file like before.