Is my database to big???

[Kblack0188]

My database recently reached 400gigs. Is this a big exchange database or is this common?? Should I run eseutil /p to make it smaller??

 

[SimonDavis]

Far as I know, the limit on 5.5 is 16gb, so 400gb does sound a bit lumpy.

Sure that's not 400 mb? That wouldn't be at all surprising.

I have about 10gb, that's 25 users private and public folders, going back about 2 years. Assuming you have an unexceptional mix of mails with and without attachments, extrapolate from that what you should have.

 

[strongm]

>the limit on 5.5 is 16gb

16Gb is the limit on the Standard edition, not on Enterprise, where the limit is (theoretically) 16Tb.

>Is this a big exchange database

From my experience, yes - but as long as you have the necessary time window to make reliable backups it shouldn't actually be a problem

 

[dennisbbb]

400GB will be a heck of a long time to back up and restore.

You should think of in these terms. Should you get a corruption, what is the possibility of restoring your user's email in time for business?

 

[Kblack0188]

This was supposed to be a joke > ONe of the clients we support recently had us change deleted item retention from 15 days to 302 days the database grew from 80gig to a little under 400 gig in about 4 months. PRETTY CRAZY HUH. We have set deleted item retention back to 15 days and the databses have stopped growing. But we are having mixed feeling on how long eseutil /d would take to run to regain the white space in the database. I have seen eseutil /d run for upto 18 hours on a 60 gig database and am leary that it would even finish completely on a edb this big.

FYI we have three servers with edbs this big.


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[Zelandakh]

wait 15 days then run it - should run very rapidly (like 4 hours). Depends on server spec obviously.

 

[dennisbbb]

IMHO, retention date should really be an emergency feature to ease the administrator's job, and not a "Cover-your-ass" benefit to the user.

 

[chrisab]

I had a lady who had a 2gb mailbox by herself. The IS was 6gb total. Needless to say, I set up mailbox limits quickly. Have everyone archive their messages to PST files on their local (or network) storage.