EDB Log files... delete old ones?

Factual Questions
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My Exchange 5.5 server has about 800 MB of those edb.log files accumulated from about 2 months ago. From what I’ve read, they are supposed to be deleted each time I do an exchange backup. I’m a bad boy and don’t backup the exchange server every day.

I got a message that all incoming and outgoing messages were being held until disk space cleared up. I only had about 50 MB left on my C drive. My D drive has about 30 GB left, that’s where the databases are at.

I moved quite a few of these log files to clear space over to a temp folder on the D drive.

My question is: Once I do a backup of Exchange and all of the mailboxes, is it safe to move all of those files or delete them?

There isn’t a problem with incoming or outgoing mail and everything seems to be fine, even after I moved some of them.

Thanks

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You can delete them, but you won’t be able to do a point-in-time restore of your exchange databases. You can replay log files to get back to a certain point with a restored database, that’s why they go away when you do a backup. You can also enable circular logging to overwrite these as needed. Check technet for the circular logging setting, haven’t done it on Exchange 5.5 in a while.

But do back up exchange everyday. :slight_smile: It makes life much simpler, much easier than having to do the eseutil, isinteg sequence.