Storage Problem - Space not freeing up...?

3 Apr 2006 11:31 AM

Scott McDonald

Our exchange server has essentially run out of room...250GB's of storage on
the drive total. I've gone through and ditched anything and everything I
could, reduced logging to 1 days worth, set retension of deleted items &
mailboxes to 1 day, had all 100+ users empty their deleted items and delete
anything else they didn't need and gone through and purged a few old
mailboxes for old employee's. I've essentially ditched about 20-30GB's worth
of stuff but the actual storage used on the drive hasn't reduced at all. I
ran a backup last night thinking it was retaining that stuff until the
stores were backed up, still the same problem even after that backup.

What could I be missing? BTW, it's Exchange 2003 Enterprise.

....?

Thanks!

Scott

3 Apr 2006 1:31 PM

Scott McDonald

I think I may have it, I guess the stores need to be defragged before the
reduction in capacity will show....So, I'm currently moving users out of
their stores into a temporary store then will delete that store, recreate it
and move them back (easier than actually defragging a store).

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"Scott McDonald" <sdgmc***@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Our exchange server has essentially run out of room...250GB's of storage
> on the drive total. I've gone through and ditched anything and everything
> I could, reduced logging to 1 days worth, set retension of deleted items &
> mailboxes to 1 day, had all 100+ users empty their deleted items and
> delete anything else they didn't need and gone through and purged a few
> old mailboxes for old employee's. I've essentially ditched about 20-30GB's
> worth of stuff but the actual storage used on the drive hasn't reduced at
> all. I ran a backup last night thinking it was retaining that stuff until
> the stores were backed up, still the same problem even after that backup.
>
> What could I be missing? BTW, it's Exchange 2003 Enterprise.
>
> ...?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Scott
>