Exchange 2003 defrag - IT nerdy question...

[edd_t]

Anyone out there with some good experience in Exchange 2003.

I need to do a defrag of a public folder store, can do local defrags easy, but I havnt got enough local HDD space. So I need set it up an offline defrage that will write to a temp file on a mapped network drive.

I cant work out what the eseutil command will be!

 

The public folder store located on:

 

e:\program files\exchsrvr\mdbdata\pub1.edb

 

and i would like to write the temp file to:

 

t:\publictemp

 

Have been checking on the knowledge base and found this... But just cant work it out...

[carl0s]

dismount the public store in ESM;

 

eseutil /d e:\progra~1\exchsrvr\mdbdata\pub1.edb /f

t:\publictemp\pub1.edb /p

 

rename the existing pub1.edb pub1.edb.old then move over the defragged file from t:\publictemp

[carl0s]

or you could copy the database over to a workstation with sufficient storage capacity and use eseutil from there (install exchange managment tools or just copy eseutil.exe, jcb.dll, exosal.dll, and exchmem.dll over to the workstation)

[edd_t]

fantastic, i owe you one matey. cheers Carlos, I really couldnt get my head round the command, especially with MS always going on about /ispriv!!!! what ever that is.

[carl0s]

fantastic, i owe you one matey. cheers Carlos, I really couldnt get my head round the command, especially with MS always going on about /ispriv!!!! what ever that is.

 

From what I remember /ispriv and /ispub were for Exchange 5.5. and it's an alternative to actually giving the pathname of the databases you want to defrag/integrity check/repair. It just means "the default private information store" or "the default public information store"