{"id":397,"date":"2010-08-10T11:35:17","date_gmt":"2010-08-10T10:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/?p=397"},"modified":"2011-10-21T12:55:33","modified_gmt":"2011-10-21T11:55:33","slug":"exchange-log-file-removal-bat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/2010\/08\/exchange-log-file-removal-bat\/","title":{"rendered":"Exchange *.Log File Removal (BAT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is BAD BAD practice to try and delete the exchange 2007 log files! It should not be done ever!<\/p>\n<p>Running into space issues on exchange needed to remove 80,000+ *.log files.\u00a0These would be removed by doing a backup, but without any space to run the backup there&#8217;s not a lot of options.<\/p>\n<p>I ran this command to perform a removal of the log files in the mailbox DB, I had to use this script the job as the windows would crash as soon as multiple files were highlighted and selected for deletion:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><code><strong>CD \/D E:\\Exchange\\Mailbox\\First Storage Group<\/strong><\/code><\/li>\n<li><code><strong>del \/s *.txt<\/strong><\/code><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In order to move logs onto another drive use this command:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>CD \/D E:\\Exchange\\Mailbox\\First Storage Group<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>move *.log &#8220;K:\\Exchange_Logs_Move&#8221;<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>DO NOT DELETE \/ REMOVE THFOLLOWING FILES:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">E00.chk<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">E00.log<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Mailbox Database.edb<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is BAD BAD practice to try and delete the exchange 2007 log files! It should not be done ever! Running into space issues on exchange needed to remove 80,000+ *.log files.\u00a0These would be removed by doing a backup, but without any space to run the backup there&#8217;s not a lot of options. I ran [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bat","category-exchange-2007"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pOPt8-6p","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}