Comments on: Exchane can’t run!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: jcan123

jcan123 — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 00:27:01 +0000

Do a full normal backup of the Exchange Information Store with NTbackup, but do not include anything else in this backup job, this will clear the logs. It’s my experience when using ntbackup that logfiles aren’t always cleared if you’re backing up something else (files etc) as part of backup job. Run other types of backups in separate jobs.
Also be sure to put your transaction logs on a separate physical drive (needs to be a different PHSYICAL drive than OS and *.edb and *.stm)

By: JGRUSA

JGRUSA — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 09:38:15 +0000

Hi,

first of all open DOS Prompt.
Navigate to the directory ..program filesexchsrvrbin Then run eseutil /mh path to the priv1.edb In the Output approx in line 10 check the status.
Is it in clean shutdown then move all transaction logfiles to somewhere or delete all of them. Transaction logfiles are E00xxxxx.log. also the E00.chk and res1 and res2.log.
Log required must be then 0-0.

If Status is dirty shutdown then go on line below and check for log required.
Note the numbers there and delete all Transaction log files exept the ones Listed in Logs required.

Example:
Suppose your Databases are in Storage Group 1

Status: dirty Shutdown
Logs required: 12589 - 12599

Then you must keep following Transaction logfiles:

12589
12590
12591
12592
12593
12594
12595
12596
12597
12598
12599

U won’t find these logfiles. You have to convert the numbers from DEZ to HEX

So you need to keep the following

E00312D.log
E00312E.log
E00312F.log
E003130.log
E003131.log
E003132.log
E003133.log
E003134.log
E003135.log
E003136.log
E00.log

Delete or better move all other files starting with E00xxxxx.log

Then you will be able to start your Databases.

But keep in mind that u probably running into the issue of 16 GB Store limit.
If you have Exchange 2003 deployed, you will be then able to install SP2 and Extend you DB limit to a max of 75 GB without any costs.
You just need to set a registry key.

For more info, go to http://www.x-data.de

Hope this helps. Jurgen

By: lennyli

lennyli — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 21:48:13 +0000

locate the ‘badmail’ folder. delete all files from that folder will free you some space. these files are all junk.

By: RandleSather

RandleSather — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 09:40:06 +0000

Also, be sure to examine your C:Program FilesExchsrvrMailroot…Badmail folders for any messages that were routed there. Typically, these can be deleted, and over time can exhaust space on your drive.

By: KevinMcKinney

KevinMcKinney — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 03:10:07 +0000

Sorry, thats eseutil /mh. Delete the log files that are older than you last full backup.

By: KevinMcKinney

KevinMcKinney — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 03:05:37 +0000

It looks like you may have more than one problem.
1) Your log files aren’t clearing
You can use eseutil -h to find out which log files are comitted and get rid of the old log files (provided you have a real recent full backup).
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;182903
Also, check your Backup software to make sure its clearing the log files upon the completion of the backup.

2) Log files should be on a seperate drive
I would install another hard drive and move your log files to the new drive and keep them there. It will help this problem and increase performance. Don’t move them manually, use exchange system manager to perform the move.

Also, if you have a large page file you can decrease its size and reboot to recover a little space momentarily.

The Anti-virus software could be an issue, to help determine that look at your log files and see how far back they go. If you have 2 weeks of logfiles then I wouldn’t think it to be an antivirus problem.

By: kalel75

kalel75 — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 17:23:29 +0000

The quickest, most effective way to solve your problem is to move the log files from your c drive to another partition. DON”T JUST DELETE THEM!! You won’t be qable to recover your server if it crashes. Here is a link to a good article that should help you out. keep me posted.
http://www.msexchange.org/articles/Exchange-log-disk-full.html

By: alanmalm

alanmalm — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 12:30:06 +0000

This is typically caused by a file level Antivirus scanning the logs directory or mdbdata folder. This is a very common problem. Be sure and follow KB245822 from the Microsoft knowledgebase for AV exclusions to follow. After excluding the proper directories, be sure and restart all AV services and the SMTP Virtual Server.

By: joco1141

joco1141 — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 10:16:31 +0000

enable mailbox quotas and have all users delete some of their old mail. also check the public folder and see what is in htere. Next mount a new hard drive in the server and use the windows disk management and extend the partition to this entire new disk……it’s capcaity will be whatever size you install into it. Manage the size of the users mailboxes and make them get rid of old mail ……using quotas saves you this hassle