05-27-2011 10:27 AM
Not sure if anyone has a good solution for this one
Running EV9 and Exchange 2010 sp1 and since we moved the journalling over too the new exchange server we have noticed the exchange database keeps growing and doesn't shrink
we went through and made the changes to make sure
single item recover disabled
Litigation hold disabled
Discovery search disabled
deleted items 1 day
deleted mailboxes 0 days
don't wait for backup before running maintanence
But still it wants to grow
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05-31-2011 08:25 AM
Spoke to Microsoft on it and they're placing a bug/fix report in for us as he has 7 cases of this
journal database is not reclaiming the white space but still there is no bug filed for the same and this is in investigation stage. Moving mailbox/mailboxes to a new database is the only thing that reduces the size of the database is the workaround for this issue as of now.
05-27-2011 12:00 PM
So the journal mailbox is being emptied by EV but the Exchange Database grows?
Is maintanence actually running against it?
05-27-2011 12:07 PM
Hey Tony,
Yes I've got maintance running 24/7 to see if it would stop growing
exchange journal mailbox is empty or as near as can be and the rest is processed by ev
05-27-2011 07:08 PM
and its definitely the database files growing and *not* the transaction logs?
And EV isnt shoving the items in to Failed To Expand/Store/Copy folders?
05-30-2011 08:38 AM
Not sure but when you state:
don't wait for backup before running maintanence
Do you mean that "Remove Safety Copies: Immediately after archiving" is set in EV or just from a pure Exchange perspective ?
If "Remove Safety Copeis" are set to "After Backup" (without the immediately for journaling option selected) on the Vault Store, then EV will wait for the backup of EV partitions to take place before it deletes the items in the journal mailbox.
Also, the database will not shrink in terms of file size, you'll just get "white space".
To shrink the database you'll need to run "offline defrag".
05-31-2011 06:35 AM
Couple updates
It's the database file that is increasing not the transaction logs.
Also what I meant by the "Don't wait for the backup" was on the exchange 2010 database limits tab they're is a check box they're to permantely delete items
if this was just white space issue i wouldn't be worried but when they're is nothing sitting in the failed folders for ev within outlook and the database itself is growing as well
05-31-2011 08:25 AM
Spoke to Microsoft on it and they're placing a bug/fix report in for us as he has 7 cases of this
journal database is not reclaiming the white space but still there is no bug filed for the same and this is in investigation stage. Moving mailbox/mailboxes to a new database is the only thing that reduces the size of the database is the workaround for this issue as of now.