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Yes, you can create and move all the mailboxes to a new database. This will only move the actual data to the new mailbox database.<br />
Another option is to dismount the database and doing a offline defrag, this will take time.
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Yes, you can create and move all the mailboxes to a new database. This will only move the actual data to the new mailbox database.
Another option is to dismount the database and doing a offline defrag, this will take time.

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data size i am seeing is correct, after move to new database, size only 70GB, so that i can delete old database file.
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data size i am seeing is correct, after move to new database, size only 70GB, so that i can delete old database file.

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hello Expert<br />
on my Exchange server, there is a database is over 300GB, so i did archive mailbox on it for users, and monitor white space via event 1221 everyday, but the white space always only 1GB and database file size keep growing.<br />
i did list all users mailbox with size via command shell, and paste into Excel, the summary size is only 70GB totally.<br />
my question is does it safe create a new database, move all to it, and delete original one?<br />
because there is only 280GB free on the volume, i am not sure 70GB is at least or 300GB.<br />
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thank you
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hello Expert
on my Exchange server, there is a database is over 300GB, so i did archive mailbox on it for users, and monitor white space via event 1221 everyday, but the white space always only 1GB and database file size keep growing.
i did list all users mailbox with size via command shell, and paste into Excel, the summary size is only 70GB totally.
my question is does it safe create a new database, move all to it, and delete original one?
because there is only 280GB free on the volume, i am not sure 70GB is at least or 300GB.

thank you

Exchange 2007 database file problem

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