Recoverable Items growing
EX2010 SP2 Rollup1 - DAG
I noticed that our database is growing very large very quickly; the size on disk used is roughly 500GB yet the database reports 285GB?
WhiteSpace (MB) : 93
MailboxCount : 2085
Server : MBXSERV2
LastFullBackup : 8/7/2012 12:01:07 AM
DatabaseSize (GB) : 284
DatabaseName : MBXDB1
AverageMailboxSize (MB) : 118.660911270983
I looked at mailboxes and they seem normal, so I looked at deleted items and one user in particular; if you notice the 11.99 GB for today, yesterday that was at 10GB.
This seems to be happening for all users just not to this extreme, our retention policy permanently deletes items in the deleted items bin after 90 days and after 2 years it does the same for
sent items, this wouldnt cause this problem would it?
Last backup was ran this AM
I cant find anything in the event log.
The below user doesnt use active sync and only uses OWA. Other users have items filling up in this location as well, I am stumped at this point.
NOTE: This cmd does not remove these emails:
Search-mailbox -identity <alias> -SearchDumpsterOnly -DeleteContent
RunspaceId : xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date : 5/23/2012 11:54:22 PM
Name : Recoverable Items
FolderPath : /Recoverable Items
FolderId : xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
FolderType : RecoverableItemsRoot
ItemsInFolder : 52967
DeletedItemsInFolder : 0
FolderSize : 11.99 GB (12,873,571,057 bytes)
ItemsInFolderAndSubfolders : 52980
DeletedItemsInFolderAndSubfolders : 0
FolderAndSubfolderSize : 11.99 GB (12,873,572,977 bytes)
Jason
August 7th, 2012 2:21pm
The root folder holds some calendar versioning data.
If you disable it for just that mailbox as a test, do things look better for that user?
set-mailbox <alias> -CalendarVersionStoreDisabled:$true
Note some improvements in SP2 RU2 and SP2 RU3:
Holy COW! Changes to Recoverable Items versioning in Exchange 2010 SP2 RU3
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August 7th, 2012 3:35pm
The root folder holds some calendar versioning data.
If you disable it for just that mailbox as a test, do things look better for that user?
set-mailbox <alias> -CalendarVersionStoreDisabled:$true
Note some improvements in SP2 RU2 and SP2 RU3:
Holy COW! Changes to Recoverable Items versioning in Exchange 2010 SP2 RU3
August 7th, 2012 3:44pm
Hi Jason,
Any updates?Frank Wang
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August 8th, 2012 11:22pm
Hi Jason,
Any updates?
Frank Wang
TechNet Community Support
"I have tried the command, however user was already at 20GB, is there anyway to reclaim this space/clear out this folder?"
Never-mind I didn't wait long enough, checked this AM and user is at: Should I enable this again?
FolderType : RecoverableItemsRoot
ItemsInFolder : 0
DeletedItemsInFolder : 0
FolderSize : 0 B (0 bytes)
ItemsInFolderAndSubfolders : 11
DeletedItemsInFolderAndSubfolders : 0
FolderAndSubfolderSize : 2.984 KB (3,056 bytes)
Jason
August 16th, 2012 8:27am
Hi GabooN,
Yes, please enable it: Calendar Version Logging was introduced in Exchange 2010 to help troubleshoot and repair calendar reliability issues.
Also please install the SP2 RU3 as the blog said.
Or SP2 RU4 directly:
Released: Update Rollup 4 for Exchange 2010 Service Pack 2
http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2012/08/14/released-update-rollup-4-for-exchange-2010-service-pack-2.aspx
Please read the following blog FIRST if you want to install RU4:
Calendar and Tasks Retention Tag Support in Exchange 2010 SP2 RU4
http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2012/08/14/calendar-and-tasks-retention-tag-support-in-exchange-2010-sp2-ru4.aspxFrank Wang
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August 16th, 2012 10:22pm