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Should I keep the logs?
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| Morning!
We have c. 3.5Gb of logs (with the name E00000123.txt etc)
in Program Files\Exchsrvr\MDBDATA going back about 3
months, that are 5Mb each. I'd like to delete lots of
them, but am unsure as to the consequences.
Any words of wisdom...?
Cheers,
Al.
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| Ronen Gabbay 2002-10-05, 8:20 pm |
| 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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"Al" <al_wilson1@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Morning!
> We have c. 3.5Gb of logs (with the name E00000123.txt etc)
> in Program Files\Exchsrvr\MDBDATA going back about 3
> months, that are 5Mb each. I'd like to delete lots of
> them, but am unsure as to the consequences.
>
> Any words of wisdom...?
>
> Cheers,
> Al.
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| David Sengupta [MVP] 2002-10-05, 8:20 pm |
| Don't delete them. (i) you should be using Exchange-aware backup. (ii) if
you really don't care about being able to recover to point of failure (i.e.
if recovering to server state as of last good backup) then turn on circular
logging on all your storage groups.
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David Sengupta M.T.S., B.Sc., MVP, MCSE, MCSE 2000, CCA Ottawa, Canada
Exchange Diagnostics: Quest Spotlight on Exchange
http://www.quest.com/spotlight_exchange
Exchange Management: http://www.microsoft.com/mom
Exchange FAQ - http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm
"Al" <al_wilson1@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:e0d801c2557f$5c0da1c0$a4e
62ecf@tkmsftngxa06...
> Morning!
> We have c. 3.5Gb of logs (with the name E00000123.txt etc)
> in Program Files\Exchsrvr\MDBDATA going back about 3
> months, that are 5Mb each. I'd like to delete lots of
> them, but am unsure as to the consequences.
>
> Any words of wisdom...?
>
> Cheers,
> Al.
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