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Everyday disk space on Exchange server keep getting low

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by bhaveshm

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It started week ago my exchange had crashed in the morning, event viewer says because of low disk space, everything was good before that, I endup restarting the server after some troubleshooting, everything came back as it is after restart I got 16GB free space,
but now everyday that free space on exchange drive is keep getting low, 16gb->13.5gb->11.1gb... now it is 5.5Gb, everyday full backup is successful, with no transaction log files pileup, the exchange data base is about 12gb and drive is 40Gb, in total the c drive should have only 21gb, I did the sizes with foldersize and diruse.exe
Please help me out

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by hcream

Looks like you have 2 postings with the same subject.
Anyway, here is my reply again:
Have you taken a look at the Program Files\Exchsrvr\mailroot\vsi1\BadMail folder? It's easy for it to be filled up with junk. I use a script to clean it up.

by ggehman

Thanks for the input. It was the badmail folder. I would like to implement the script to run on a regular basis. Do you have any recommendations on sample scripts and or can share the script you put in place. Is it just a batch file that you have scheduled?

Thanks.

by ggehman

Hello, I am having almost the exact same problem as you had a while ago. I was wondering if you ever figured this out? My disk space continues to decrease each day even after a full backup and this started after the server exchange drive ran out of disk space. I got my disk space back by removing some files but now it just keeps getting lower. I cannot figure out where the space is going. The only thing using the drive (E) is Exchange.

I would be very appreciative of any information you have on this issue.

G Gehman
ggehman@yahoo.com

by ggehman

Yes as someone stated in one of the posted replies. It ended up being over 10GB of useless files in the BadMail folder. This folder constantly collects spam and mail that the server considered junk based on your filtering and spam control settings. It was so large that using Windows Explorer would not work and it would hang. I had to go to a command prompt and even there I could not list the folder contents (too large) so I simply went to the badmail folder and did a "delete *.* and when prompted I said Yes to confirm the delete. The cursor prompt sat there as it processed and after a few hours it eventually deleted the entire contents and I had 10GB of space on my E drive for Exchange. I may have used a switch to bypass the recycle bin, I dont recall or when deleting from a command prompt, the recycle bin is not put in use.

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