Hello,

I am a neophyte to managing exchange server 2003 and I have a problem. I've performed a full back up of the storage group and the log files don't go away. I'm ready to just delete them because they are taking up too much space. What can I do?

Thank you in advance for your help.

Truncation
Full (normal) Database and log files Yes
Incremental Log files only Yes
Differential Log files only No
Copy Database and log files No

The normal or full backup only backs up the log files that are created during the time the backup process is running. As a result, the log files that are there in the backup are just the log files needed to perform the recovery process, but not every log file that has been written.
In order to really get a full copy of all the log files that are written, as well as the full backup, you can take a copy backup, which is a full backup that doesn't truncate logs, so it will back up everything, and then an incremental backup that backs up all the log files and then does the truncation for you, because in some way you have to have the truncation happen or you run out of disk space fairly quickly.
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Disaster recovery in Microsoft Exchange Server
September 28, 2004

^_^,Pretty Good!