Carrie Miles
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Extremely Urgent! Backup not working, disk space running low due to transaction logs not flushing
Our tape backup drive has gone kaput and we won't be getting a new one until next Wednesday. I wish they would have diagnosed the problem sooner but they didn't and now we have not have a successful backup since last Wednesday, the drive space is dwindling due to the transaction logs not being flushed.
Can I copy those to another server to free up space or will that affect exchange in some way?
Thank you so much!
Can I copy those to another server to free up space or will that affect exchange in some way?
Thank you so much!
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Yes, that SHOULD be all you need to do, backup the information store using the Windows Backup.
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A clean shut down database requires no log files to get mounted again. As soon as it mounts it starts fresh log files. So the old log files is ready to be deleted.
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Thank you all for your help, but I jsut realized I can do a backup to disk through Backup Exec which will resolve this issue, until the new drive comes in.
Thank you again!!!
Thank you again!!!
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Thank you! Quick question though, if I choose just the information store, will that flush the logs?
I need to do something about the log files, the Exchange server is running out of space.
Thanks!