Exchange logs building up fast and not truncating
Hi, all:
This issue just started within the past week. We are an Exchange 2010 environment running a DAG with 2 nodes in the cluster. My application logs all look fine and do not raise any flags regarding truncation of logs. However, I have a 646GB drive that was down to 544MB of space this morning. I am using Backup Exec 2015 and this has not been an issue until recently (within the past week). We've have a few incrementals fail with a GRT error, but I've disabled GRT on incrementals, now, so we'll see how that goes. Thanks in advance for any help.
-R
This issue just started within the past week. We are an Exchange 2010 environment running a DAG with 2 nodes in the cluster. My application logs all look fine and do not raise any flags regarding truncation of logs. However, I have a 646GB drive that was down to 544MB of space this morning. I am using Backup Exec 2015 and this has not been an issue until recently (within the past week). We've have a few incrementals fail with a GRT error, but I've disabled GRT on incrementals, now, so we'll see how that goes. Thanks in advance for any help.
-R
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El Fierro,
Thank you for posting something that was at least halfway insightful and helpful. I genuinely appreciate it! This actually makes a lot of sense. Let me look into this and see how the job runs tonight and I will definitely get back with you. Again, many thanks!
-R
Thank you for posting something that was at least halfway insightful and helpful. I genuinely appreciate it! This actually makes a lot of sense. Let me look into this and see how the job runs tonight and I will definitely get back with you. Again, many thanks!
-R
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What about enabling the circular logging ?
that would be the first test to reduce the log size growing.
that would be the first test to reduce the log size growing.
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Thanks, guys! El Fierro, you were spot on. Sudeep, I used your method to free up log space and it worked a treat. Thanks again for all the input I received!
Backup software has the responsibility of truncating Exchange logs.
If logs aren't being truncated, it's most likely related to the backup software. Look there - is there a job that's stuck, or hasn't completed, or is taking longer than your permitted backup window? You'll probably find your answer in BE's logs/console.