Free space required for running Exchange 2003 offline defrag
Need to run an offline defrag to get under the 75 GB limit. Have checked event 1221 for free space.
.EDB and .STM files together is 78 GB
On the drive where the .EDB and .STM files are located are 18GB free space
I would like to defrag to another drive with 400 GB free space using the /P switch on ESEUTIL.
My question is: Will the offline defrag require more space on the source drive than the 18 GB? or is the source drive not affected at all since the /P will create a new copy on the other drive?
.EDB and .STM files together is 78 GB
On the drive where the .EDB and .STM files are located are 18GB free space
I would like to defrag to another drive with 400 GB free space using the /P switch on ESEUTIL.
My question is: Will the offline defrag require more space on the source drive than the 18 GB? or is the source drive not affected at all since the /P will create a new copy on the other drive?
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Will it fail and eventually corrupt the database or will it just not run and give me an error?
And again, is the exstra space needed on the drive where the database files reside today or on the drive where I will put the defragged database using the /P switch?
And again, is the exstra space needed on the drive where the database files reside today or on the drive where I will put the defragged database using the /P switch?
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The /p switch is not the seitch you need, you need to use the /t seitch to point the temp files to a different drive.
110% of the database size (.edb + .stm files) in free disk space is required.
Your command will be:
eseutil /d "x:\program files\exchsrvr\mdbdata\pri
110% of the database size (.edb + .stm files) in free disk space is required.
Your command will be:
eseutil /d "x:\program files\exchsrvr\mdbdata\pri
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Right now the DB files is 78 GB and event ID 1221 says 8 GB white space, so maybe we should not run an offline defrag yet.
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Thanks to everyone for your inputs. They all helped me to take the right decision. Change the retention time and get more white space and wait to see if offline defrag is really nescesarry.
I suggest moving the DB to a new server and defrag it.