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by mrmmills

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1-27-03
My users email alot of pdf, MS Word, and HTML documents as attachments. We are required to keep them and not detach them. As a result the Exchange database (pub.edb and priv.edb) was getting huge. In Exchange 5.5 I set my users mailbox settings to stay under 300MB and then they archive old email to a pst file on the file server. This has been great in keeping the the mail server more responsive and less of a chance of JetAdmin database corruption.

However the .pst files are very defragmented on my file server. Some have maxed out at 2GB per user, so new .pst files were created for the users. A traditional Server defrag won't defrag a pst file. (neither will Diskkeeper)

EDBUTIL will defrag a pst file BUT do I have to do iton that exchange server? Can I move the large pst files to another workstation and defrag them there instead of shutting down my Exchange server services to do this in offline mode?

Any help would be appreciated,
Thanks,
MrMMills (MrMMills@onebox.com)

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by dukebytes

Shut down your server services and backup your larger files to tape - delete them and then restore. It should defragment everything you have. We have the same problem - but in reverse. Several million very small files under thousands of directories. When it gets too bad - we do a full backup - delete all the files and restore.

Good luck,
Duke

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