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Jun 24, 2020

Exchange 2013 DAG

I have exchange cu15 with DAG on a hybrid environment where most of the mailboxes has already been migrated. One of the mail server database drive is almost running out of space. How to I clean it u...

MCT

Jun 24, 2020

Hi PrasantChettri ,

The immediate solution is to remove transition logs, which will free up plenty of space in the disk. To clear up transaction logs (If you don't need the logs further), enable circular logging for the database. Mount and un-mount the databases is needed to take effect the changes. Once the logs are clear up, you can disable circular logging again to keep the original settings

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/configure-circular-logging-for-a-mailbox-database-exchange-2013-help?redirectedfrom=MSDN

Thanks,

Manu

Prasant Chettri
Copper Contributor
Jun 24, 2020
Is it safe to clean up transaction log from one server in a dag enabled environment? Or it needs to be removed from both server?
- manuphilip
  MCT
  Jun 24, 2020
  Hi Prasant Chettri
  
  When you enable circular logging in database, It re synchronizes the logs and it will be purged in all database copies. It may few hours depends on the database size. A 200 GB of database with 300 GB logs takes 3 to 4 hours in Blade servers
  To Enable circular logging, you may use the following cmdlet :
  Set-MailboxDatabase “DatabaseName” -CircularLoggingEnabled:$True
  To Disable:
  Set-MailboxDatabase “DatabaseName” -CircularLoggingEnabled:$False
  - PrasantChettri
    Copper Contributor
    Jul 01, 2020
    manuphilip I enabled circular log from gui but it did not clean up automatically after mount and dismount. I ended up deleting log files manually