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Hello All,
I just took over a network and I noticed that they have on their exchange server 10's of thousands of files in the DB folder starting with E0200000A00 for example. those files goes back to 2012. My question is if it is safe to delete the older files for example all 2012 is more they 40GB.
Thanks
Roy

R--R

Take a backup of exchange this files will automaticall purged.
If not then dismount the database.
Check the database status it should be clean shutdown by running eseutil /mh database path.
Then you can move the logs. This is a manual work.

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Akhater

You have been given sound advise, if the logs are from 2012 it means that there is no backup from back then so you have to be careful

Your best bet is to take a full backup with an exchange aware software and this should delete all logs by itself.

If you don't have an exchange aware backup you can use the built-in windows backup for now.

Finally, if you really want to but I won't advise it, you can enable circular logging on the database, dismount-mount it and logs will be cleared.

Make sure to disable circular logging again if you decide to go that way

rfinaly

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I am using Symantec Backup exec and running backup nightly, not sure why it does not remove the logs, I am checking into this right now.
Roy

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Do you have the Exchange agent for Backup Exec?