ESEUTIL Questions

[striperstalker]

I inherited an Exchange 2000 box that services about 150 users and has about 140 GB of information stores...I know, I know...quotas are coming. Anyway, this box has never had any offline defrag and they have been through several DoS attacks, spam floods and major Exchange moves. Online maintainence has been unable to complete for weeks, It uses all of the alloted time and terminates. So this past weekend we decided to bite the bullet and run ESEUTIL /d. It ran for-ever...best practices says to expect about 10 GB/hr. When it was complete we had only recovered about 1.5 GB and online maintenece is still unable to complete. There were no errors when it ran. Did I do something wrong? I ran eseutil /d G:\%info store path% /p /t G:\%tempdfg path%\temp1.edb.

I used the \p switch so it wouldn't instate the new database and the /t switch to give the temp databases different names. I just seems that nothing was accomplished. Is there a way to analyze how defragment databases really are?

 

[murpau]

I have the same problem, I run isinteg -test alltests -l c:\logfile.log

I you have warnings or errors add -fix to isinteg

after eseutil /d

Copy priv1.edb and priv1.stm before if you have enough space.

 

[Zelandakh]

Don't -fix. 1.5GB sounds right. Go to ESM and export the mailbox sizes and add them up in Excel. Does it vaguely tally?


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[dduvlea]

I would suggest checking the deleted items retention period. I have it set for 5 days. Before I defrag I set this to 0 (zero) days. Also make sure user deleted items folders are emptied.