Log files growing
Greetings,Our exchnage admin is out ill for a month and I am taking over his responsibilities. We use exchange 2007 (3 database servers & 2 HT/CA). We use SCR to keep things redundant. On our second exchange server (ex02) on our log files drive one of the folders called "\\ex02\logs\ex01\fourth storage group) has grown to 530GB, the forth storage group .edb is only 96GB. My big question is how to resolve this, but I have a few smaller questions to help me understand how the system is working.1) is there a command I can type in to find out how logs are being shipped, so I know for sure that ex01.fourth storage group is being shipped to ex02 or ex03. i.e. which way are things SCR'ing2) Is there a safe and easy way I can purge the log files. Backup should be doing this as it does it on the other servres and stores, but its not workingin this one casefor some reason3) Is there anything else I should be investigating?Thanks for your help-B
November 3rd, 2009 6:09pm
Greetings, Here is an article that may prove helpful with transaction log sprawl. If it is growing out of control and you are certain you have a solid backup, you might enable circular logging temporarily to lighten the load. http://msexchangetips.blogspot.com/2006/08/exchange-transaction-log-files-growing.html Hope this helps. J. Peter Bruzzese www.exclusivelyexchange.com (MCT/Triple-MCSE/MCITP)
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November 4th, 2009 8:03am
What's the status of SCR replication? Is replication status show healthy?
How to View the Status of Standby Continuous Replication
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November 4th, 2009 8:55am
Nice to see you here Sir. I have referred your CBT exchange Nuggets as well as other Exchange Articles. Keep up the Good Work. Vinod
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November 4th, 2009 2:46pm
In Addition to other respected Members I would also ask you to check the below article to find why logs are growing so rapidly Troubleshooting Exchange 2007 Store Log/Database growth issuesVinod
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November 4th, 2009 2:49pm
Thanks Vinod,I would have visited sooner if I knew how much fun this was going to be. I may not know all the answers to everyones questions but I love trying to help. And I'm learning a ton in the process.J. Peter Bruzzesewww.exclusivelyexchange.com (MCT/Triple-MCSE/MCITP)
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November 6th, 2009 2:01am
Thanks for replying me back sir. I am also learning a lot from this Forum. By any chance are you going to update www.exclusivelyexchange.com with exchange 2007 sp2 videos? I am eagerly waiting for the same.Vinod
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November 6th, 2009 6:28am
So the Get-StorageGroupCopyStatus shows healthy, although the ReplayQueueLength is 542056. I'm guessing that is too big.Would the correct plan of action be to 1) Disable the SCR for that particular storage group; Disable-StorageGroupCopy -id [server\storagegroup] -StandByMachine [target server]2) Delete all the log files and the Database file on the Target server3) Enable SCR; Enable-StorageGroupCopy -id [server\storagegroup] -StandbyMachine [target server]?Thanks,-B
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November 10th, 2009 9:09pm