DELETE MDBDATA LOGFILES?

[hdeassis]

We have exch 2003 enterprise. I recently looked in our MDBDATA folder and saw thousands of logfiles(E00000A0.LOG) and each about 5mb. We will run out of disk space fairly soon if I dont delete them. They have taken almost 70gig of space. What can I do? Should I delete them? and how can I prevent this from happening in the feature.

Please help!!

Thanks

 

[xmsre]

do a full online backup of exchange with an exchange aware backup program to truncate committed logs. You can use NTBackup if you don't have anything else.

 

[hdeassis]

will that delete the log files? What do I select to backup when using NTbackup? Do I have to stop the exchange services? Sorry for all my questions, don't know much about exchange.

 

[xmsre]

It need to be a full online backup. You'll back up the Exchange Information Store. After successful completion of a full online backup, all committed logs will be removed.

 

[A15]

Or you can set your exchange on to circular logging.
and it will save only the log for a limited amount of days back. (you specify how far back.)

 

[hdeassis]

Thanks. Where do I check for a circular logging? and todo a full online backup do I have to have the services running.

Thanks for your help.

 

[xmsre]

If you use circular logging, you limit your future recovery options - Not recommended.

 

[hdeassis]

How do I do a online backup using NTbackup?

 

[hdeassis]

any takers?

 

[dearingkr]

Click Start | Run
Type 'ntbackup'
Click on the 'Backup' tab
Browse to your Exchange information store and select it for backup.

MCSE CCNA CCDA

 

[StuartMillar]

Dearingkr --> I have tried what you have said but it instantly says it has completed but skipped files, i.e. all files! Do the Exchange services need to be shutdown first?

 

[wennek]

hi ya dearingkr ,

i had the same problem. it also mentioned that i didn't have enough rights, even though i was logged in as administrator. after the backup my log files doubled!!
we also use veritas backup software. is it possible that this interferrs with the backup?
i wonder whether there is a patch / tool you can run once in a while which get's rid of all the log files instead of using this whole backup procedure through ms backup.

any help would be appreciated!

cheerio

benjamin

 

[hdeassis]

I ran a backup of the information store using arcserver and the problem was solved.