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Missing space on SBS 2011 (Server 2008 R2)

I have an SBS 2011 server, which is based on Windows Server 2008 R2.

The C drive is a 136Gb drive.

If I count all of the files on the C: drive, they come to about 44Gb. I am showing hidden files and OS protected files before doing the count.

The drive has less than 4Gb free.

I scheduled a chkdsk on reboot, then rebooted, and all this did was reduced the free space by 200Mb.

Any idea how to recover my space?

Richard

rgorman

Download windirstat (https://windirstat.info/) and run it against your drive and see what it shows for your space consumption. I suspect you aren't assessing the space usage correctly. If you run it you can post a screenshot here and we can review the space distribution with you.

rindi

Make sure your backup utility is 100% successful after it has done a full backup. Only that ensures that exchange transaction logs etc are reset. Also make sure your backup utility is exchange aware (the built-in backup tool of SBS 2011 is exchange aware).

Also check your WSUS settings, they can accumulate...

Makes sure everything that isn't the OS is located on other drivers, not C:.

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szichen

Maybe your partition is 48GB which is why you have only 4 GB space. The rest of the drive might be unused.

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I had run WinDirStat, and that only showed the 44Gb of files, however based on part of David Johnson's comment I tried running WinDirStat as an admin, and that showed over 80GB of Exchange Log Files.

I am using AVG CloudCare Online Backup, which has an Exchange Plug In, but it would appear that this is not fully doing its job!

As I don't want to change my backup provider, is there a manual procedure to collapse the logs?

Thanks,

Richard

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It turns out that the AVG CloudCare backup client had lost some settings and was not doing an Exchange Backup.

This has been corrected, and it did a full online backup and now things are back to normal.

Thanks for the help everyone.

Richard