Exchange Growth 3 GB overnight
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I am having a problem with Exchange 2003. Sunday afternoon, the Priv1.edb file had grown 3GB since Friday and had filled up the partition resulting in the mailbox store dismounting. I cleared around 2 GB of space last night and then this morning the priv1.edb had grown enough to fill the drive up again. The priv1.edb is 23 GB now. How can I figure out where the growth is coming from and what can I do to stop it?
I am having a problem with Exchange 2003. Sunday afternoon, the Priv1.edb file had grown 3GB since Friday and had filled up the partition resulting in the mailbox store dismounting. I cleared around 2 GB of space last night and then this morning the priv1.edb had grown enough to fill the drive up again. The priv1.edb is 23 GB now. How can I figure out where the growth is coming from and what can I do to stop it?
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There was 1 GB of pagefile on te E partition. I reduced it by 256 mb to give me room to mount the mailbox store. It came back up and I had the 249 users archive. The largest of the mailboxes was 500 MB and the default mailbox size was set to 115 MB, but about 20 users had larger than default. I just changed everyone down to 80 MB, with the exception of some of the executive staff, and had everyone archive. It appears as though the mailbox size showing in ESM might not be reflecting the archive activity that has been happening for the last couple of hours.
That is the problem - you cannot have no free space on the store - remember that exchange you have to allow free space (double) the amount as that is what MS recommends.
I had exactly the same problem and the only way was to add more disk - if you cannot do that see if you can add an external storage device like a NAS or SAN
Remember that if you remove a mailbox from your Exchange your store size will still be the same size and the only way is to get an additional storage device.
I had exactly the same problem and the only way was to add more disk - if you cannot do that see if you can add an external storage device like a NAS or SAN
Remember that if you remove a mailbox from your Exchange your store size will still be the same size and the only way is to get an additional storage device.
Or even a DAS device.
That will help you alot
That will help you alot
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Everything is running ok at the moment with 500 MB of free space. I am going to do an offline defrag to regain around 8 GB of space. Have any of you ever done an offline defrag to a mapped drive or a usb drive? Any issue come to mind?
You offline defrag will stop, as you do not have enought diskspace, and if you run it with 500mb of disk space you stand a big chance of crashing your store.
Defragmenting an Exchange 2000 or Exchange 2003 database
Note Defragmenting a database requires free disk space equal to 110 percent of the size of the database being processed.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/192185
Get an additional storage device (DAS) and move your store to the other server.
Defragmenting an Exchange 2000 or Exchange 2003 database
Note Defragmenting a database requires free disk space equal to 110 percent of the size of the database being processed.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/192185
Get an additional storage device (DAS) and move your store to the other server.
Otherwise try this.
Map an external storage device, to a drive
dismount store
open command prompt
the eseutil is located in c:\program files\microsoft\exchange\b
run the esetul from the mapped drive that got much more free space, eseutil will create temp cache file on the mapped drive so you will be ok with out running out of space.
how long it will run will depend on your system speed and of your external drive speed.
good luck
Map an external storage device, to a drive
dismount store
open command prompt
the eseutil is located in c:\program files\microsoft\exchange\b
run the esetul from the mapped drive that got much more free space, eseutil will create temp cache file on the mapped drive so you will be ok with out running out of space.
how long it will run will depend on your system speed and of your external drive speed.
good luck
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I finally found out why the database grew so fast. Large amount of pictures were emailed around to one person who in turn emailed them to others and so on. Thank you all for your help.
Just like I said in the last line of my first post... :)
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