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JohnnyForums -> RE: Size issue with information store (13.Jun.2008 2:08:54 PM)
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Mark,
I already have my retention set to 0, so that's no good, and the office politics are too fragile here for me to really enforce any kind of quotas/limitaions. So, that leaves me dealing with the users one by one, which is maddening. But here's why I'm really concerned about this. I'd been holding steady at about 500GB free space for a while -slim, I know- when I had a user delete about 6 months of email. I had a backup of his mailbox, but it was a week old and I don't have the means to do a granular restore. So, to avoid overwriting his existing mailbox and losing a weeks worth of mail, I set up an additional mailbox and was restoring his backup to it. Well, I had a bit of a brain-fart, because I completely spaced the fact that I was about to add a restored 700MB mailbox into a store with only 500MB free. So, wham, bam, hello 16GB! I immediately knew what I'd done and got it back up in a matter of minutes. I deleted the mailbox I'd been restoring and then went through the whole eseutil /d process. That should have put me back to where I was before the restoration, i.e., approximately 500MBfree. Actually, before I ran th offline defrag, I cleaned out about another 1GB of termed employees that I hadn't been notified about. So, I was expecting to have about 1.5GB free. The fact that I wound up having even less room after I cleared more space is what has me more than a little worried... It doesn't make sense. At least not to me. What do you think?
One thing I just thought of is users archiving. Is there a way in Exchange 2000 to force them to archive or for me to do it at the server level? I've used exmerge to export to PST files, but I don't think it archived. Is there something I could do for that?
Thanks for all of your help!
John
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