Exchange 2010 remove log files manually

 · If I compare database and log size from Exchange and now in Exchange I see that Exchange size is twice larger. I see that this was caused by making log of every task. I see that move mailbox process probably exports the file into log (and leave that log staying there) and then imports it into database.  · But right now the log partition size was reached maximum. We need to clear old logs. The windows Backup it will support to clear a logs. Please advice for the same. Regards, Santh. (in reply to mark@www.doorway.ru) Post #: 3. RE: How to clear old log files in exchange - Jul AM.  · Delete ETL files: Navigate to the location –. C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V15\Bin\Search\Ceres\Diagnostics\ETLTraces. Select and delete all the available log files within that folder. Next, move to this location –. C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V15\Bin\Search\Ceres\Diagnostics\Logs.

Now your log files will be safely truncated after the next log file creation. Removing Logs Manually After Database Dismount. Exchange normally commits all remaining log files when running the database dismount procedure. It, therefore, allows you to make sure that log files that you want to delete are already in the database. Different ways to clean up Exchange Log Files. The best way to deal with the issue of log files taking over Exchange Server storage is to clean up these log files. We propose multiple ways to do that further in this blog. Delete it manually. Deleting Diagnostic Logs: On the Exchange system, run www.doorway.ru from the Windows run box. Seeding is the process in which a copy of a mailbox database is added to another Mailbox server. This becomes the database copy into which copied log files and data are replayed. The Update-MailboxDatabaseCopy cmdlet can also be used to seed a content index catalog for a mailbox database copy. When you do this, the MAPI network is used, regardless of the value you specify with the Network.

Delete ETL files: Navigate to the location –. C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V15\Bin\Search\Ceres\Diagnostics\ETLTraces. Select and delete all the available log files within that folder. Next, move to this location –. C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V15\Bin\Search\Ceres\Diagnostics\Logs. Inside these are log files you can delete as well. You can also look in the following folder for the same set of folders: C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V15\Logging\RpcHttp. Here you can also delete these files. HTTP Proxy Logs. The last place you can look as well for log files is in this location. Below is a complete set of steps to remove the excess transition log files manually: 1 1) Give a halt to the entire databases in the storage group. 2 2) Now the verification of the state of each database in the particular storage group is done. 3 3) Execute one of the following actions.