I deleted the mailboxes and ran the cleanup agent...but I am sure that it will continue to grow. i will just leave it as is and as we create new mailboxes I assume it will use the white space in the mailstore. Thanks for your reply.
ok thanks...so I just ran a manual full backup of the database and it is now showing correctly in the store properties. Is there a way to shrink the actual size of the database since we recently removed several old mailboxes (about 10GB)?
Sorry for mentioning maintenance alot in this forum but it actually has alot to do with our current database size...there are a few differant peices to the puzzle so I am trying to look at the big picture and not get stuck on minor details...
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yes i have the agent installed and it has been working great...this problem just started a few weeks ago.
So aside from the backup that has not been running according to the exchange server...My exchange database is very large...we recently cleaned out old mailboxes and the size did not...
ok...let me ask you this then...when you say backup, are you referring to a backup task on the exchange server or a IS Backup? I have daily incremental backups and weekly full backups running via Backup Exec which have been completing successfully every day. But when I look at the database tab...
I agree, I have not found a good solution for this. But, here is what i do...if a user is terminated but other users still need access to the mailbox...I reset the password on the AD account and leave it enabled. Then give the users that still need access permissions to view the mailbox. This...
Pat,
Thanks for your reply...maybe there is something else going on then...because the MDBDATA folder is growing rapidly and i am getting low on disk space.
Is there a way to verify that the daily DB maintenance is running for peace of mind. If I understand it right...the maintenance should...
Hello everyone,
My exchange 2003 database maintenance is not running as scheduled. I noticed that my transaction logs were not being cleaned up and i started running out of disk space. When I checked the database tab on the information store properties it said the last full backup ran over a...
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