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Why are you doing an offline defrag first of all?<br />
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What does Event 1221 say, are you going to get back 5GB?<br />
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If not, don't bother doing an offline defrag.<br />
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If so, then an offline defrag is going to take between 3 and maybe 5 hours for that store.<br />
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Here is a great guide on getting it to happen -&gt; <a href="http://www.petri.co.il/defragment_exchange_2000_2003_server_databases.htm" rel="ugc">http://www.petri.co.il/defragment_exchange_2000_2003_server_databases.htm</a><br />
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-red
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Why are you doing an offline defrag first of all?

What does Event 1221 say, are you going to get back 5GB?

If not, don't bother doing an offline defrag.

If so, then an offline defrag is going to take between 3 and maybe 5 hours for that store.

Here is a great guide on getting it to happen -> http://www.petri.co.il/defragment_exchange_2000_2003_server_databases.htm [http://www.petri.co.il/defragment_exchange_2000_2003_server_databases.htm]

-red

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How much time should I allow for an offline defrag of a private information store that is approximately 15 Gig?<br />
Also, I'm looking for experience with this on how it may benefit performance and disk space.<br />
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Thanks,<br />
Mike
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How much time should I allow for an offline defrag of a private information store that is approximately 15 Gig?
Also, I'm looking for experience with this on how it may benefit performance and disk space.

Thanks,
Mike

Offline Defrag timeline Exchange 2003

Exchange is the server side of a collaborative application product that is part of the Microsoft Server infrastructure. Exchange's major features include email, calendaring, contacts and tasks, support for mobile and web-based access to information, and support for data storage.