Exchange 2007

Greetings and Felicitations

In my Exchange Server 2007, I have a D:\ drive where I keep the logs for my
first, second and third storage groups.
My log files have grown tremendously.

In my first storage group folder, I have 8270 files adding up to 8.07Gb.
In my second storage group folder, I have 1210 files adding up to 1.18Gb.
In my third storage group folder, I have 4851 files adding up to 4.73Gb.

Can I just delete these *.LOG files?
They date back many months.

Is there a setting where I can auto-purge them? (Or limit their creation???)

Any help, very appreciated.

Thanks
-Rik

On 03/09/10 20:39, news.microsoft.com wrote:
> Greetings and Felicitations
>
> In my Exchange Server 2007, I have a D:\ drive where I keep the logs for my
> first, second and third storage groups.
> My log files have grown tremendously.
>
> In my first storage group folder, I have 8270 files adding up to 8.07Gb.
> In my second storage group folder, I have 1210 files adding up to 1.18Gb.
> In my third storage group folder, I have 4851 files adding up to 4.73Gb.
>
> Can I just delete these *.LOG files?
> They date back many months.
>
> Is there a setting where I can auto-purge them? (Or limit their creation???)
>
> Any help, very appreciated.
>

What kind of backups are you doing? As far as I am aware, a backup which
is Exchange-aware e.g. NT Backup, will delete these logs. Exchange
stores mail on a transaction-rollback database, and these logs are the
journal. To backup properly, the journal transactions must be
permanently committed to the database and the journal entries deleted. I
think if you delete them manually, mail may go missing. I would have
thought you could commit using Exchange commands, but I've never needed
to do that.

Microsoft is pulling out of newsgroups, you'll have more luck finding an
Exchange guru on one of the web forums now, here's the SBS one:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/...server/threads

--
Joe

On server 2008, the backup program cannt address Exchange (or at least, mine
does not)
This has become pretty crazy. I need to back this up correctly.

Thank you, Joe for any ideas you might have

-Rik


"Joe" <> wrote in message
news:%idgo.46974$2...
> On 03/09/10 20:39, news.microsoft.com wrote:
>> Greetings and Felicitations
>>
>> In my Exchange Server 2007, I have a D:\ drive where I keep the logs for
>> my
>> first, second and third storage groups.
>> My log files have grown tremendously.
>>
>> In my first storage group folder, I have 8270 files adding up to 8.07Gb.
>> In my second storage group folder, I have 1210 files adding up to 1.18Gb.
>> In my third storage group folder, I have 4851 files adding up to 4.73Gb.
>>
>> Can I just delete these *.LOG files?
>> They date back many months.
>>
>> Is there a setting where I can auto-purge them? (Or limit their
>> creation???)
>>
>> Any help, very appreciated.
>>
>
> What kind of backups are you doing? As far as I am aware, a backup which
> is Exchange-aware e.g. NT Backup, will delete these logs. Exchange stores
> mail on a transaction-rollback database, and these logs are the journal.
> To backup properly, the journal transactions must be permanently committed
> to the database and the journal entries deleted. I think if you delete
> them manually, mail may go missing. I would have thought you could commit
> using Exchange commands, but I've never needed to do that.
>
> Microsoft is pulling out of newsgroups, you'll have more luck finding an
> Exchange guru on one of the web forums now, here's the SBS one:
>
> http://social.technet.microsoft.com/...server/threads
>
> --
> Joe