Hosted Exchange box logging advice please.

[GeorgeTuk]

Hi guys,

So I am setting up an Exchange server in a hosted environment that is backed up by the hosting company. Now obviously with Exchange you have the logs that would eventually eat up all the space, so is there some way to clear the logs or should I just backup using NT backup to another disk on another server in the environment?

Any advice warmly welcomed.

Thanks

George

 

[pagy]

A normal or incremental backup using NTBackup will flush the logs from disk anyway

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[GeorgeTuk]

Thanks Pagy, sorry I wrote that in a rush but that is what I meant.

So should I do that basic backup and therefore flush the logs that way OR implement circular logging OR something else?

 

[58sniper]

Normal full backups will truncate the logs automatically. If you implement circular logging, you lose the ability to do a point in time recovery (for the most part).

I'm making the assumption that you're only referring to transaction logs and not any of the other Exchange related logs.

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