Recently I had the joy of an oversize (16GB) exchange database that would not mount, I needed to do a emergency defrag of it and hes what I did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1. First shutdown Exchange completely, including the information store service, to ensure we get a clean shutdown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2. Now copy the files priv1.edb and priv1.stm files to another location as to defrag a database you will need 110% of the size of the database in free disk space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Therefore moving to another drive is normally a good way of doing this, if the drive is on a computer without exchange follow these instrcutions from Microsoft “How to run Eseutil on a computer without Exchange Server” at <\/a>http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/244525\/en-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 3. In this example ive copied the files to c:\\edb and created within that another folder called “backup” with the path c:\\edb\\backup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 4. First run a integrity check of the database using the command below and if its ok, you can carry on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n See this link for more information: <\/a>http:\/\/www.petri.co.il\/check_exchange_2000_2003_server_databases_integrity.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 5. Now you can perform the defrag, in my example I wanted to preserve the copies I made so I have at least one copy at all times of a working database that I can go back to if it all goes wrong, i used this command:<\/p>\n\n\n\n See this link for more information: <\/a>http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/?id=192185<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 6. After it finishes delete your orignals in “c:\\program files\\exchsrvr\\mdbdata\\priv1.edb” and “c:\\program files\\exchsrvr\\mdbdata\\priv1.stm”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 7. Copy the two temp files which are the defragmented databases from “c:\\edb\\backup\\temp.edb” and “c:\\edb\\backup\\temp.stm” to “c:\\program files\\exchsrvr\\mdbdata\\temp.edb” and “c:\\program files\\exchsrvr\\mdbdata\\temp.edb” respecitvely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 8. Rename them so they have the following names: “c:\\program files\\exchsrvr\\mdbdata\\priv1.edb” and “c:\\program files\\exchsrvr\\mdbdata\\priv1.stm”<\/p>\n\n\n\n 9. Remount your defraged database.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Recently I had the joy of an oversize (16GB) exchange database that would not mount, I needed to do a emergency defrag of it and hes what I did. 1. First shutdown Exchange completely, including the information store service, to ensure we get a clean shutdown. 2. Now copy the files priv1.edb and priv1.stm files … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft-exchange","category-microsoft-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1545,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions\/1545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}eseutil \/k \"c:\\edb\\priv1.edb\"<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\neseutil \/d c:\\edb\\priv1.edb \/p \/t c:\\edb\\backup\\temp.edb \/f c:\\edb\\backup\\temp.stm<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n