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Here is a more detailed article on how to backup Exchange with ntbackup:<br />
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<a href="http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/Exchange-2003-Backup-Restore-NTBACKUP.html" rel="ugc">http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/Exchange-2003-Backup-Restore-NTBACKUP.html</a>
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Here is a more detailed article on how to backup Exchange with ntbackup:

http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/Exchange-2003-Backup-Restore-NTBACKUP.html [http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/Exchange-2003-Backup-Restore-NTBACKUP.html]

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As The_Kirschi said a full online backup with ntbackup should be clearing those logs, but sometimes it doesn't for various reasons (Antivirus is scanning the MDBDATA folder or something similar). &nbsp;Have a look at these if The_Kirschi's replies don't sort the problem -<br />
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<a href="http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=147524" rel="ugc">http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=147524</a><br />
<a href="http://www.msexchange.org/articles/Properly-Configure-file-system-antivirus-Exchange.html" rel="ugc">http://www.msexchange.org/articles/Properly-Configure-file-system-antivirus-Exchange.html</a><br />
<a href="http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;555360" rel="ugc">http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;555360</a>
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As The_Kirschi said a full online backup with ntbackup should be clearing those logs, but sometimes it doesn't for various reasons (Antivirus is scanning the MDBDATA folder or something similar).  Have a look at these if The_Kirschi's replies don't sort the problem -

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=147524 [http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=147524]
http://www.msexchange.org/articles/Properly-Configure-file-system-antivirus-Exchange.html [http://www.msexchange.org/articles/Properly-Configure-file-system-antivirus-Exchange.html]
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;555360 [http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;555360]

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ended up sending the exchange server to our corp office so we dont have this issue any longer. &nbsp;Tried EVERYTHING and could never figure out what the problem was.
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ended up sending the exchange server to our corp office so we dont have this issue any longer.  Tried EVERYTHING and could never figure out what the problem was.

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I have windows 2003 server doing a windows backup of the exchange 2003 mailbox store daily. &nbsp;It goes through ok and finished without an error. &nbsp;The issue I am having is the log files wont auto remove from the MDBDATA file. &nbsp;Each E0000(number here) file is about 5 megs and it fills up my HD ultimatly crashing my exchange server.<br />
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Help!
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I have windows 2003 server doing a windows backup of the exchange 2003 mailbox store daily.  It goes through ok and finished without an error.  The issue I am having is the log files wont auto remove from the MDBDATA file.  Each E0000(number here) file is about 5 megs and it fills up my HD ultimatly crashing my exchange server.

Help!

Exchange Backup issue

The Microsoft Server topic includes all of the legacy versions of the operating system, including the Windows NT 3.1, NT 3.5, NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 and Windows Home Server versions.

Microsoft Server OS

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).

Windows Server 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.