Under the folder C:\Program Files\Exchsrvr\MDBDATA and C:\Program Files\Exchsrvr\COMPACTEXC.log in Ms Server 2003, there are a lot of log files which occupy a lot of hard disk space. Can I move these log files to other drives instead of doing fullbackup to purge these files away?

You can but you would likely lose data in the event of a failure. That is definitely NOT a best practice. -- Ed Crowley MVP "There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems." . "Wong Kang Boon" wrote in message news:98dce488-7248-4a42-8240-6717d4cfa844... Under the folder C:\Program Files\Exchsrvr\MDBDATA and C:\Program Files\Exchsrvr\COMPACTEXC.log in Ms Server 2003, there are a lot of log files which occupy a lot of hard disk space. Can I move these log files to other drives instead of doing fullbackup to purge these files away? Ed Crowley MVP "There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems."

May you give specific example to elaborate?

Hi, I wonder why you don't want to make a full backup instead of removing(moving) the log files. If you haven't an backup application,you can just use the Ntbackup. Suppose you don't make a backup, the database is currupt, you haven't a backup file to restore, so you lost all your data in this database.(If you do have ALL log files since the database created, you can use eseutil to create a database,but you should keep large space to place the log files, and all log files should be OK). So please do a full backup now. More information: How to remove Exchange Server transaction log files http://support.microsoft.com/kb/240145/en-usFrank Wang