Exchange MDBDATa file

[Ricky Lie]

Hi,

I'm utilizing the exchange server which included in my win2003 sbs, there
are files (mdb, *.log) in the subdirectory of C:\Program
Files\exchsvr\MDBDATA that grows from time to time and occopied most of my HD.

How can I manage those datas to keep its size as the exchange needs?

I thank you for all advise in advance.

Thank you and best regards
Ricky Lie

[Danie Vink]

These are the Database files and Log files required/generated by Exchange
and is certainly very important files.

You can move them with Exchange System Manager to a different location. In
ESM right-click on the storage group and select properties. You can move the
files to a different location.

The log-files should be flushed automatically after every successful backup.

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[Oliver Moazzezi [MVP]]

Hi there,

These are you Exchange Database and the Transaction Log files for Exchange.
See:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa996118.aspx

You will find the edb and stm file will grow as you recieve more mail over
time, however you can purge the *.log files by ensuring you run backups
regularly. See here:

http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/Exchange-2003-Backup-Restore-NTBACKUP.html

(of course you will need disk space to store the backup, however that can be
another server)

It is best practice to move both to dedicated disks so as not to impact
space on the system volume, are you in a position to do this? They must be
local disks, see:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/821915

Oliver

[Ricky Lie]

Hi Danie,

Thank you for reply.

I'll plan to have a separate HD to accomodate all my data and exchange
database, appreciate for the information.

Regards
Ricky Lie

[Ricky Lie]

Hi Oliver,

Thank you for reply, it is a lof of helpfull informations that you provide.

Yes, we are going to provide a separate HD to acommodate all of our data and
exchange database, base on your informations I should be able to do it.

Appreciate for the help

Regards
Ricky Lie

[Ricky Lie]

Hi Oliver,

I'm following the backup procedure using ntbackup and run as normal backup.
At the end of the process, which is ended normally (without any error), my
transaction log was not deleted automaticly and the size of the mdb-files
still reminds the same as before. Did I miss anything during the backup
process?

Regards
Ricky Lie

[Danie Vink]

You may have to dig a little deeper into the backup log-file as I just
checked on my test bench and ntbackup certainly flushes the log-files after
a successful backup.

"Ricky Lie" <Rick...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

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[Ricky Lie]

Hi Danie,

Thank you for reply,

I'm following the backup procedure from:

http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/Exchange-2003-Backup-Restore-BACKUP.html

couldn't get the result as in your system.

I get the backup complete message with no error but my mdb-file (about 13G)
and log-files remind as it is.

Regards
Ricky Lie