Log files growing
- Greetings,
Our exchnage admin is out ill for a month and I am taking over his responsibilities. We use exchange 2007 (3 database servers & 2 HT/CA). We use SCR to keep things redundant. On our second exchange server (ex02) on our log files drive one of the folders called "\\ex02\logs\ex01\fourth storage group) has grown to 530GB, the forth storage group .edb is only 96GB. My big question is how to resolve this, but I have a few smaller questions to help me understand how the system is working.
1) is there a command I can type in to find out how logs are being shipped, so I know for sure that ex01.fourth storage group is being shipped to ex02 or ex03. i.e. which way are things SCR'ing
2) Is there a safe and easy way I can purge the log files. Backup should be doing this as it does it on the other servres and stores, but its not working in this one case for some reason
3) Is there anything else I should be investigating?
Thanks for your help
-B
Answers
- So the Get-StorageGroupCopyStatus shows healthy, although the ReplayQueueLength is 542056. I'm guessing that is too big.
Would the correct plan of action be to
1) Disable the SCR for that particular storage group; Disable-StorageGroupCopy -id [server\storagegroup] -StandByMachine [target server]
2) Delete all the log files and the Database file on the Target server
3) Enable SCR; Enable-StorageGroupCopy -id [server\storagegroup] -StandbyMachine [target server]
?
Thanks,
-B- Marked As Answer byRobert Sieloff Wednesday, November 18, 2009 7:46 PM
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- Greetings,
Here is an article that may prove helpful with transaction log sprawl.
If it is growing out of control and you are certain you have a solid backup, you might enable circular logging temporarily to lighten the load.
http://msexchangetips.blogspot.com/2006/08/exchange-transaction-log-files-growing.html
Hope this helps.
J. Peter Bruzzese
www.exclusivelyexchange.com
(MCT/Triple-MCSE/MCITP) - What's the status of SCR replication? Is replication status show healthy?How to View the Status of Standby Continuous Replication
Amit Tank
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Vinod |CCNA|MCSE 2003 +Messaging|MCTS|ITIL V3| - In Addition to other respected Members I would also ask you to check the below article to find why logs are growing so rapidly
Troubleshooting Exchange 2007 Store Log/Database growth issues
Vinod |CCNA|MCSE 2003 +Messaging|MCTS|ITIL V3| - Thanks Vinod,
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Vinod |CCNA|MCSE 2003 +Messaging|MCTS|ITIL V3| - So the Get-StorageGroupCopyStatus shows healthy, although the ReplayQueueLength is 542056. I'm guessing that is too big.
Would the correct plan of action be to
1) Disable the SCR for that particular storage group; Disable-StorageGroupCopy -id [server\storagegroup] -StandByMachine [target server]
2) Delete all the log files and the Database file on the Target server
3) Enable SCR; Enable-StorageGroupCopy -id [server\storagegroup] -StandbyMachine [target server]
?
Thanks,
-B- Marked As Answer byRobert Sieloff Wednesday, November 18, 2009 7:46 PM
