delete exchange 2010 transaction logs
Hello,
I need to delete the Exchange 2010 Transaction logs. There are thousands of them and I NEED to do that. I read two things:
One, do the eseutil /mk command and find out the last log file that was used and detele the rest.
two, do a shutdown and run eseutil /MH and find out if there was a clean shutdown and delete all the transaction logs. read this:
https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/26389043/Can-I-manually-delete-my-Exchange-2010-transactions-logs-and-start-over.html
So, what do you recommend? I don´t have any real backup solution, except that I recently got a new HDD where I can send a copy of the exchange virtual server. Yes, it is not best practices, but the company is really small :)
I need to delete the Exchange 2010 Transaction logs. There are thousands of them and I NEED to do that. I read two things:
One, do the eseutil /mk command and find out the last log file that was used and detele the rest.
two, do a shutdown and run eseutil /MH and find out if there was a clean shutdown and delete all the transaction logs. read this:
https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/26389043/Can-I-manually-delete-my-Exchange-2010-transactions-logs-and-start-over.html
So, what do you recommend? I don´t have any real backup solution, except that I recently got a new HDD where I can send a copy of the exchange virtual server. Yes, it is not best practices, but the company is really small :)
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my server is windows 2008 r2, on a virtual machine. the roles in there are: IIS and file server.
exchange 2010 and mcafee groupshield are the other programs.
I´m installing windows backup and test it.
exchange 2010 and mcafee groupshield are the other programs.
I´m installing windows backup and test it.
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wow the backup process is gonna take a lot. I wonder if I can leave it working while Exchange Server is on?
Yes it will run without stopping exchange. If you have never backed up it can take many many hours. But once your uptodate, schedule it for every night and will not take anywhere near as long.
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Thank you so much!
The regular backup process did the trick, I could do a circular backup on a test environment (with much less logs) but the regular one was my call. I had over 166000 log files! It took three days and the first attempt failed on the second day..
I'm scheduling a backup on the same database (the complete system is backed up just copying the full virtual machine to a second datastore). It doesn't seems to be that incremental backup option when I choose a shared folder?
The regular backup process did the trick, I could do a circular backup on a test environment (with much less logs) but the regular one was my call. I had over 166000 log files! It took three days and the first attempt failed on the second day..
I'm scheduling a backup on the same database (the complete system is backed up just copying the full virtual machine to a second datastore). It doesn't seems to be that incremental backup option when I choose a shared folder?
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https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/26487072/Thousands-of-transaction-logs.html
I´m assuming that previous to enabling circular logging I must shutdown the server?