Re: MDBDATA Log files

Hi,

These files are exchange server transaction log files and they should be 
purged by running a full backup of the information store by an exchange 
aware backup program (such as ntbackup).

Don't remove these files manually.

Leif

"Bob Engler" <BobEngler@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> skrev i meddelelsen 
news:CA2708FD-9E5E-48DA-AE3A-8D766B47DB9C@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>I have MS Exchange 2003 that I just inheirited sup****t for. The server is
a
> HP Raid5 with 203GB total. I am down to 6.4GB free space. When I look at

> the
> C:\Program Files\Exchsrvr\MDBDATA, it is using 177GB of space. The 3
.edb
> files are about 16GB total and the 2 .stm files are about 19GB total and

> the
> rest, over
> 29,500 files, are .log files. I'm a linux guy thrown into the Windows 
> world
> and it's the Holidays so I'm can't even find sup****t. Anything would be
> greatly appreciated as I see the server running out of space about next
> Friday. One sup****t person told me I would have to take the system
offline
> for 2 - 8 days to capture the "whitespace". When I look at the
mailboxes, 
> I
> see about 1.5 GB of deleted space. It is set to purge or whatever it's 
> called
> in 7 days.
>
> My question is...what are those log files and can I do something with
them
> to get space back. Some of them are from 2004. I will give up my
Christmas 
> to
> get something done as that and Thanksgiving are the only days we don't 
> work.
>
> Thanks in advance......