Exchange 2007 log maintenance
Where can I configure Exchange for minimum logging/shorten the history of logs kept (ex. to a week)?
Now it seems to be logging a lot and it quickly fills in my hard disk.
For ex. I found 30GB of E000000xxx.log files in \\NEW-SQL\f$\Temp\Exchange
What other files can I delete?
Now it seems to be logging a lot and it quickly fills in my hard disk.
For ex. I found 30GB of E000000xxx.log files in \\NEW-SQL\f$\Temp\Exchange
What other files can I delete?
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do you have 3rd party backup software? If not here is how to do it with NT backup that comes with the server. http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/Exchange-2003-Backup-Restore-NTBACKUP.html
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I ran the backup and it ended with the following error:
The 'Microsoft Information Store' returned 'Some log or patch files are missing. ' from a call to 'HrESEBackupOpenFile()' additional data 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\Mailbox\First Storage Group\E00000060BA.log' The 'Microsoft Information Store' returned 'Functions called in an invalid sequence.
Well, this is why I wanted to do the backup in the first place, to get rid of the 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\Mailbox\First Storage Group\E00000xxxxx.log files.
I had to move those files to another hard drive because I ran out of disk space.
How can I truncate these logs from Exchange Management Console (or Exchange Management Shell), so the backup would not look for them and end without errors?
The 'Microsoft Information Store' returned 'Some log or patch files are missing. ' from a call to 'HrESEBackupOpenFile()' additional data 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\Mailbox\First Storage Group\E00000060BA.log' The 'Microsoft Information Store' returned 'Functions called in an invalid sequence.
Well, this is why I wanted to do the backup in the first place, to get rid of the 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\Mailbox\First Storage Group\E00000xxxxx.log files.
I had to move those files to another hard drive because I ran out of disk space.
How can I truncate these logs from Exchange Management Console (or Exchange Management Shell), so the backup would not look for them and end without errors?
if you want just truncate it set "Enable Circular logging" in you First Storage Group properties
NEVER manually delete an exchange log file this is the ABC of exchange
anyway it seems it is too late for this lesson now.
Do the following
Stop your information store
move all the log files (BUT res1.log and res2.log and e00.log) to another directory
start your information store
If all goes well and you db is mounted and all you can delete the log files you've moved
Take backup of exchange periodically to clean the log files
anyway it seems it is too late for this lesson now.
Do the following
Stop your information store
move all the log files (BUT res1.log and res2.log and e00.log) to another directory
start your information store
If all goes well and you db is mounted and all you can delete the log files you've moved
Take backup of exchange periodically to clean the log files
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Since ths is a server I'm still testing, I'll start with 'Circular logging' and once everything works, I'll shitch to weekly backups.
As I understand it if you have exch 07 w/ccr then log maint is NOT triggered by running bkup
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How do I do a backup of the Exchange Server (since apparently this will clean up space)?