Old Servers on 4 GB drives

[mikehday]

I need some help with an issue I’m not sure where to post. In my work environment we’ve got bundles of old Compaq servers that were built on 4 GB mirrored drives. They have various sized application drives but that is not my problem. We also don’t want to rebuild these servers … they are primarily just proxy servers or test boxes that don’t require a lot of horse power and of course if they were new servers they’d be installed on Linux or Windows virtual servers now.

My issue is space. Sometimes the Windows folder has grown to about 3gb which only leaves 1 GB for any small apps that may be installed and the pagefile. The only thing I’ve been cleaning up or deleting with a clear conscience is the patch uninstalls folders since I don’t need those unless I need to uninstall a patch and I can recover that file from my backups if necessary. My goal is to have at least 500 mb free on the C drive for the OS to work properly and so my backups succeed but that seems to get harder and harder lately.

Does anyone know of any other files that I can be deleting in the Windows folder without bringing my server down?

Thanks,
Mike Day

 

[mrdenny]

Anything in the Temp folders.
Remove users profiles from the server.
Any IIS logs (or any other Microsoft logs).


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