Exchange Server C Drive out of SPACE!!

[Guest jasongrubbs]

We are currently running Exchange 2003 on a server with mirrored 18GB

SCSI hard drives. As you probably guessed, the drives are filling up

with the logs as the Database is stored on the D drive.

 

Is there a way to break the mirror on the Boot drive, insert a bigger

hard drive and remirror on a bigger drive and not lose any of our data

or have to reinstall??

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

 

 

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[Guest JohnB]

Re: Exchange Server C Drive out of SPACE!!

 

You would still end up with a mirrored 18gb partition on the larger drive.

Do you have Ghost, or some other imaging software? That would solve your

problem.

 

 

 

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> We are currently running Exchange 2003 on a server with mirrored 18GB

> SCSI hard drives. As you probably guessed, the drives are filling up

> with the logs as the Database is stored on the D drive.

>

> Is there a way to break the mirror on the Boot drive, insert a bigger

> hard drive and remirror on a bigger drive and not lose any of our data

> or have to reinstall??

>

> Any help would be greatly appreciated!

>

>

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[Guest Meinolf Weber]

Re: Exchange Server C Drive out of SPACE!!

 

Hello jasongrubbs,

 

Do you have space available in the server for more harddisks? Then you can

move the database files just to the new added disk without playing around

on the mirrored drive.

 

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> We are currently running Exchange 2003 on a server with mirrored 18GB

> SCSI hard drives. As you probably guessed, the drives are filling up

> with the logs as the Database is stored on the D drive.

>

> Is there a way to break the mirror on the Boot drive, insert a bigger

> hard drive and remirror on a bigger drive and not lose any of our data

> or have to reinstall??

>

> Any help would be greatly appreciated!

>

> http://forums.techarena.in

>

[Guest AllenM]

Re: Exchange Server C Drive out of SPACE!!

 

You mention the "Database is stored on the D drive" I'm assuming is

reffering to the Exchange Store? How big is your D drive? Have you

considered moving your applications off of the C and onto the D drive?

What's using all the space on C? It can't be just the logs themselves.

 

 

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> We are currently running Exchange 2003 on a server with mirrored 18GB

> SCSI hard drives. As you probably guessed, the drives are filling up

> with the logs as the Database is stored on the D drive.

>

> Is there a way to break the mirror on the Boot drive, insert a bigger

> hard drive and remirror on a bigger drive and not lose any of our data

> or have to reinstall??

>

> Any help would be greatly appreciated!

>

>

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[Guest cphillips User]

Re: Exchange Server C Drive out of SPACE!!

 

On Fri, 02 May 2008 17:54:42 +0530, jasongrubbs wrote:

> We are currently running Exchange 2003 on a server with mirrored 18GB

> SCSI hard drives. As you probably guessed, the drives are filling up

> with the logs as the Database is stored on the D drive.

>

> Is there a way to break the mirror on the Boot drive, insert a bigger

> hard drive and remirror on a bigger drive and not lose any of our data

> or have to reinstall??

>

> Any help would be greatly appreciated!

 

 

 

You can move the location of the logfiles in exchange... if they are

filling up your C: drive, i would move them to a different partition.

 

**I'm assuming by logs you are referring to the transaction logs.

[Guest leew [MVP]]

Re: Exchange Server C Drive out of SPACE!!

 

jasongrubbs wrote:

> We are currently running Exchange 2003 on a server with mirrored 18GB

> SCSI hard drives. As you probably guessed, the drives are filling up

> with the logs as the Database is stored on the D drive.

>

> Is there a way to break the mirror on the Boot drive, insert a bigger

> hard drive and remirror on a bigger drive and not lose any of our data

> or have to reinstall??

>

> Any help would be greatly appreciated!

>

>

 

Question 1: Why do you have so much data in Log files? Don't you ever

backup the server? Proper backups of Exchange with an exchange aware

backup program like NTBackup purge the log files.

 

Question 2: Why not add another array to the server and move the logs to

that... less complicated than trying to break a mirror and recreate and

then expand partitions...

[Guest Robert Moir]

Re: Exchange Server C Drive out of SPACE!!

 

AllenM wrote:

> You mention the "Database is stored on the D drive" I'm assuming is

> reffering to the Exchange Store? How big is your D drive? Have you

> considered moving your applications off of the C and onto the D drive?

> What's using all the space on C? It can't be just the logs themselves.

 

The exchange transaction logs can expand at a large rate if a large number

of transactions are taking place. Sadly being hit for a lot of spam can do

that.

 

The logs can back up if a full online backup isn't done. This is what causes

the logfiles to commit and clear themselves up.