Exch 2007 Database still large after moving all email boxes AND doing a offline Defrag
Exchange 2007, SP3, RU6. General question. I migrated all mailboxes out of a database (into another DB), then offlined that particular database and ran a defrag (eseutil /d "mailbox database3.edb"). I've done thise to two other databases we have, and after the fact get reduced to virtually 0 (4 MB to be exact). When I did this latest database (was at 123 GB), it defragged down to 10 GB, not exactly what I was expecting. Any ideas? Thanks, James
July 17th, 2012 11:04am

Agreed. By defragging it gave me a sense of nothing was left in it. So when I ended up doing that, I was quite surprised for it to report 10 GB in it. the EMC does not show any mailboxes using it. The Storage group itself does have two other databases in it. Again, inherited and not my doing. I definately subscribe to the One storage group, one DB methodology. There are a few sub directories as well in the location where the DB's are located. they say "catalogdata-a-bunch-of-Hex-numbers. these would appear to be maybe indexing files? Just not sure which one would be for which, so not sue which one I can delete. Thanks, James
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July 17th, 2012 6:43pm

On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 22:43:04 +0000, Tandy Brands wrote: >Agreed. By defragging it gave me a sense of nothing was left in it. So when I ended up doing that, I was quite surprised for it to report 10 GB in it. the EMC does not show any mailboxes using it. The EMC only shows you "normal" mailboxes. It doesn't show you any system mailboxes. >The Storage group itself does have two other databases in it. Again, inherited and not my doing. I definately subscribe to the One storage group, one DB methodology. Easy to fix . . . create the additional SGs and move users to a new database in the SG. Then remove the old DB and delete the file. When you're done there won't be any databases in the directory so you can remove all the log files for the SG (and the checkpoint file) and the catalogs (they're for full text indexing). >There are a few sub directories as well in the location where the DB's are located. they say "catalogdata-a-bunch-of-Hex-numbers. these would appear to be maybe indexing files? Just not sure which one would be for which, so not sue which one I can delete. See above. --- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP --- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP
July 17th, 2012 10:28pm

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