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| Steve Malloch 2002-10-05, 8:13 pm |
| I currently have 5000 or so 5mb log files wasting
harddrive space on my server. How do I know which ones I
can get rid of. Also how do I do it automagically. I have
delete log files older than 14 days checked, but some of
these are a year old or more.
Thanks,
Steve
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| How are you backing up your Exchange server? Any decent Exchange-aware
backup software that does an online backup (without having to take the store
offline) should clean up those log files automatically.
"Steve Malloch" <malloch@nbsin.com> wrote in message
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> I currently have 5000 or so 5mb log files wasting
> harddrive space on my server. How do I know which ones I
> can get rid of. Also how do I do it automagically. I have
> delete log files older than 14 days checked, but some of
> these are a year old or more.
>
> Thanks,
> Steve
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| those aren't message tracking logs - they are transaction logs - an online
backup should delete committed log files - you are backing up, right?
Online, right?
"Steve Malloch" <malloch@nbsin.com> wrote in message
news:801201c24ac4$e0f9ade0$b1e
62ecf@tkmsftngxa04...
> I currently have 5000 or so 5mb log files wasting
> harddrive space on my server. How do I know which ones I
> can get rid of. Also how do I do it automagically. I have
> delete log files older than 14 days checked, but some of
> these are a year old or more.
>
> Thanks,
> Steve
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| Ronen Gabbay 2002-10-05, 8:13 pm |
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The Exchange server logs are used for recovery ,
it is not recommended to delete those logs manually.
The logs files are deleted automatically when you back the
Exchange Information store with an online backup program.
If the data that filling up your disks are log files then run online backup
that should clear those logs.
If the log files are not deleted ,verify that you are using the Exchange
agent
When you use Exchange agent you will have the ability to backup the
Exchange Information Store databases and storage groups.
Do not backup the Exchsrvr folder nor any Exchange files you can harm the
database. ( and Do not backup drive M: )
After the full backup all logs will be deleted
If you do not have any Exchange backup agent use NTBACKUP to
backup the Exchange , the log files will be deleted While the
backup is running the server still operational.
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"Steve Malloch" <malloch@nbsin.com> wrote in message
news:801201c24ac4$e0f9ade0$b1e
62ecf@tkmsftngxa04...
> I currently have 5000 or so 5mb log files wasting
> harddrive space on my server. How do I know which ones I
> can get rid of. Also how do I do it automagically. I have
> delete log files older than 14 days checked, but some of
> these are a year old or more.
>
> Thanks,
> Steve
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