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    • brianlittlejohnB
      brianlittlejohn @wirestyle22
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      @wirestyle22 Exchange aware backup is supposed to take care of it. You may have an issue there.

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      • wirestyle22W
        wirestyle22 @brianlittlejohn
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        @brianlittlejohn Do you know of a powershell command to check this? I could be sitting here for 30 minutes waiting for it to calculate the space

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        • brianlittlejohnB
          brianlittlejohn @wirestyle22
          last edited by

          @wirestyle22 not off hand.

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          • sully93S
            sully93
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            Just open Windows Explorer and look at your log directory. If you are not using an Exchange aware backup program then your logs are not getting purged.

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            • momurdaM
              momurda
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              @wirestyle22 said in Exchange 2010 Hard Drive Space Issues:

              @brianlittlejohn Do you know of a powershell command to check this? I could be sitting here for 30 minutes waiting for it to calculate the space

              If it is taking that long to calculate the logs folder space, then that is the problem. You probably have tens of thousands of little log files there and they arent being truncated daily.

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              • wirestyle22W
                wirestyle22 @momurda
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                @momurda I'll check on it. Thanks

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                • sully93S
                  sully93
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                  If a large number of logs are the problem then you can manually delete them if the database is clean.

                  1. Dismount the database
                  2. Run the command eseutil /MH "<databasename>.edb"
                  3. If the state shows the database as Clean Shutdown you are good to delete the log files.

                  Feel free to hit me up if you need any help on this.

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                  • wirestyle22W
                    wirestyle22 @sully93
                    last edited by

                    @sully93 Thanks

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                    • wirestyle22W
                      wirestyle22
                      last edited by

                      This does seem to be the issue. What backup solution should we be moving to? Veeam?

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                      • momurdaM
                        momurda
                        last edited by

                        What are you using now? Are yopu sure it is configured correctly for exchange?

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                        • wirestyle22W
                          wirestyle22 @momurda
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                          @momurda said in Exchange 2010 Hard Drive Space Issues:

                          What are you using now? Are yopu sure it is configured correctly for exchange?

                          Everything here is inherited. They used Cobian backup and Windows backup.

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                          • wirestyle22W
                            wirestyle22
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                            2.27 TB in the logs 😕

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                            • travisdh1T
                              travisdh1 @wirestyle22
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                              @wirestyle22 said in Exchange 2010 Hard Drive Space Issues:

                              2.27 TB in the logs 😕

                              Sure sounds like backups haven't been happening on the database.

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                              • momurdaM
                                momurda
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                                That is like 1million+ log files. Cant believe your exchange is still serving mail in a timely fashion.
                                Cobian Backup doesnt seem to support exchange.

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                                • sully93S
                                  sully93
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                                  Windows Backup should be able to truncate the Exchange logs.

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                                  • brianlittlejohnB
                                    brianlittlejohn
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                                    Windows backup is supposed to truncate logs, if it is configured correctly.

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                                    • JaredBuschJ
                                      JaredBusch @sully93
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                                      @sully93 said in Exchange 2010 Hard Drive Space Issues:

                                      If a large number of logs are the problem then you can manually delete them if the database is clean.

                                      1. Dismount the database
                                      2. Run the command eseutil /MH "<databasename>.edb"
                                      3. If the state shows the database as Clean Shutdown you are good to delete the log files.

                                      Feel free to hit me up if you need any help on this.

                                      Never do this unless it is an absolute last resort. You can break shit.

                                      I have had to do it in the past, but you seriously do not want to.

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                                      • JaredBuschJ
                                        JaredBusch @sully93
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                                        @sully93 said in Exchange 2010 Hard Drive Space Issues:

                                        Windows Backup should be able to truncate the Exchange logs.

                                        This is very correct. Windows Backup should do this if it is actually configured correctly and actually working.

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                                        • brianlittlejohnB
                                          brianlittlejohn
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                                          If im in a pinch and know the backups I have are good, I turn on circular logging and restart the information store. Let it clean the logs, then switch it back and fix my backup issue.

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                                          • JaredBuschJ
                                            JaredBusch @wirestyle22
                                            last edited by JaredBusch

                                            @wirestyle22 said in Exchange 2010 Hard Drive Space Issues:

                                            This does seem to be the issue. What backup solution should we be moving to? Veeam?

                                            Just as an FYI the paid Veeam solution does handle this.

                                            Veeam runs a backup on this server every 4 hours.

                                            Last run was a noon. Here is the log directory.

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