Problems with MDBDATA , please help !! 2

[georgewong237]

Dear all :
Today I found my Exchange 2k server are very busy with a low performance and from "Taskmgr" I checked store.exe has occupy 300Mb of size. Every client can't download the mail thus I try to reboot my Exchange server 2k and after then I found there are many big files under MDBDATA were created during my bootup process as following :

Priv1 2Gb
Priv1.edb 161M
Adm_staff 1.3Gb
Sec1 888M
Ship staff 860M
and .....

Due to the lack of space on my server harddisc, can I delete these files which created today. Please advise, many thx

George

 

[allanh1]

In all honesty i wouldnt delete any of them you are likely to do more dmaage. Have you backed up the transaction logs, as they will use u a lot of disk space until you back them up?

 

[antonph]

don't delete them. backup up your information store using an exchange aware backup program. if you are successful in backing up you will be able to free up some space automatically! hope this helps!

Regards,
Anton

 

[georgewong237]

Thx for the information, but where I can find the exchange aware backup program, since I'm using veritas as backup agent. I cannot see after veritas backup, it will delete the log automatically. Please send me some information.

BRs
George

 

[darren97]

If ou haven't got the Microsoft Exchange agent installed for Veritas, you can backup using NTBackup. Backup the information store and this will commit the transaction logs in \exchsvr\mdbdata to the information store. Once committed NTBAckup will delete the logs thus freeing up vital disk space

 

[fr33l3r]

Cause i have seen this problem myself i can tell you this. As information store Exchange uses default files which will be altered when the data in the files is used.

Priv1.edb is one of them. What i did was looking for files with older dates cause exchange would always change the date to the present date. If a file is not used cause you changed de information store several times you can delete them savely. But it would not a understatement to backup them before you ever delete any file within the exchange system.

Not all files with older dates are not used. So try to look for filenames that exchange would never use.

 

[georgewong237]

Dear all :
Thx for your information, I have tried to run the NTbackup and backup information store sucessfully under exchange server. But I still found that the files in MDBDATA folder without any changes. Is there anythings I have done wrong on ntbackup, please advise and thx so much.

BRs
George

 

[Zelandakh]

The mdbdata folder holds the Exchange database (and transaction logs if the location has not been changed). Ignore it. Check that ntbackup does not give any errors and you should be ok.

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