Defragging Exchange 5.5 DB on another server

[ASGill]

Hi Experts,

I'm planning to defrag my exchange 5.5 db which is currently 53GB - My manager says we're using exchange 5.5 standard, but from what i've read, standard ed. allows only up to 16GB and then it stops - how do i verify the edition that is installed?

anyways, my main question is, can i use another server to perform defrag on the db and then copy back the defragged db back to the original server. if yes, do i need to be worried about transaction logs?

planning to get this done tommorow, please help me understand so i can do the above confidently.

thanks
asg

 

[Zelandakh]

In Event Log it will tell you if it is standard or enterprise when the Exchange service starts. 53GB means Exchange Enterprise!!

You CAN perform defrag on another box but I'd recommend this:

Map a drive to another box
net use x: \\anotherserver\anothershare

Then use:
x:
c:\exchsrvr\bin\eseutil /d <details of DB to be defragged> /t x:\

The reason for doing the above is that you are specifying another drive (with enough space) to do the defrag but you usually get killed by the working directory hence changing the working directory to X first and referencing the eseutil.exe program fully.

This worked for me many times when I used a 5.5 server.

 

[zbnet]

A bit late, I know (sorry); but faq10-6005 answers at least some of your questions.

I'd always want to know what the white space is (event 1221) in a DB before doing an offline defrag.