Exchange 2000 offline defrag of 1 store while 2 stores online
I have an exchange server with 60GB mailboxstore \ 2 GB mailboxStore \ 5Gb mailboxstore... I have 3 GB left.
I moved all the mailboxes from to the smaller stores. Now since this is the default one, I do not want to delete it. so I was thinking of offline defrag..... I need to do this while the other two are still online. This is what I plan to do, please let me know if I need something else:
1) dismount the mailboxstore 60GB (which is the one I want to defrag)
2) Copy Priv1.* to another machine with plenty of space and run eseutil /d /p <database name>
3) Once done. I will rename the orig to .old or something and copy the new files which should be very small to the original location.
4) Mount the mailbox store back.
The question is, would the other stores be ok and remain online with no issue. Do I have to do anything with the transaction logs. Would the store mount in this case.
Thanks,
I moved all the mailboxes from to the smaller stores. Now since this is the default one, I do not want to delete it. so I was thinking of offline defrag..... I need to do this while the other two are still online. This is what I plan to do, please let me know if I need something else:
1) dismount the mailboxstore 60GB (which is the one I want to defrag)
2) Copy Priv1.* to another machine with plenty of space and run eseutil /d /p <database name>
3) Once done. I will rename the orig to .old or something and copy the new files which should be very small to the original location.
4) Mount the mailbox store back.
The question is, would the other stores be ok and remain online with no issue. Do I have to do anything with the transaction logs. Would the store mount in this case.
Thanks,
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YIf you want to re-claim the white space in the sotre and keep this store then you need to complete the defrag. To be honest if your aim is to remove this store in the end anyway I would simply let the backup run on the next schedule, dismount it, if you must to free space move the associated files for that particular store to a temp location and then monitor and test everything. If you have no issues after say 10-15 days you can pretty much say that you should be ok to delete the store.
This has some info on deleting stores. It refers to a front end server but its the same principle. If you dismount the store and see no issues then you can be pretty safe to delete it but as I said test and onitor before hand especially since your still running Exchange 2000.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/exchange/guides/E2k3SecHardGuide/226dbfa1-a75c-4d01-bdde-14321b22b743.mspx?mfr=true
This has some info on deleting stores. It refers to a front end server but its the same principle. If you dismount the store and see no issues then you can be pretty safe to delete it but as I said test and onitor before hand especially since your still running Exchange 2000.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/exchange/guides/E2k3SecHardGuide/226dbfa1-a75c-4d01-bdde-14321b22b743.mspx?mfr=true
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Thank you mass2612 .
I did an offline defrag on the store and everything is good. thank you again for your quick responses.
I did an offline defrag on the store and everything is good. thank you again for your quick responses.
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Once the defrag is done, I will copy it over and mournt the mailboxstore back online (while the other two are running)
Q2. Backup takes about 12hours to run.... this store has nothing on it except the system attendant. (do have I have to do an offline defrag or can I not dismount it, rename the priv1.* to Priv1old.* and mount it.... would that mess things up. (just a thought) I have nothing on there anyway.
should I use esutil /d /p priv1.edb