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What I would do is to attach a USB hard drive (cheap) and the use ntbackup to create a backup of exchange. As ntbackup is exchange aware then once completed exchange will commit the logs and clear down the space. &nbsp;If you have removed logs then this process might not complete due to an inconsistent log chain.<br />
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<a href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/240145" rel="ugc nofollow">http://support.microsoft.com/kb/240145</a><br />
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Have a look at this doc, it's written for exchange 5.5 and 2000 but the 2000 section should apply.
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What I would do is to attach a USB hard drive (cheap) and the use ntbackup to create a backup of exchange. As ntbackup is exchange aware then once completed exchange will commit the logs and clear down the space.  If you have removed logs then this process might not complete due to an inconsistent log chain.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/240145 [http://support.microsoft.com/kb/240145]

Have a look at this doc, it's written for exchange 5.5 and 2000 but the 2000 section should apply.

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It was that a full backup was required...incremental wouldn't do the trick.
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It was that a full backup was required...incremental wouldn't do the trick.

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Exchange 2003 exchange logs caused space to run out &amp;&nbsp;Store to dismount. &nbsp;I've copied some of the logs to another partition and am able to get the store to mount, but am not able to run a successful backup now. &nbsp; Keeps failing on verify with &quot;Access denied&quot; message
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Exchange 2003 exchange logs caused space to run out & Store to dismount.  I've copied some of the logs to another partition and am able to get the store to mount, but am not able to run a successful backup now.   Keeps failing on verify with "Access denied" message

Exchange store will mount, but won't backup

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