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List:       ngw
Subject:    Re: [ngw] post office cleanup
From:       "Bob Jonkman" <bjonkman () sobac ! com>
Date:       2008-11-26 19:46:37
Message-ID: 492DA79D.20810.352B404 () bjonkman ! sobac ! com
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After you run GWCHECK for contents with ATTCLIP you need to run GWCHECK for contents 
a second time.  Files don't get removed until the second pass.  Yes, it can take a 
long time.

It IS possible to delete really old or large files in OFFILES manually, but the 
database pointers will lose their references.  It may take many runs of GWCHECK for 
contents (alternately with ATTCLIP, then without) before all the errors are gone, if 
at all.  Official recommendation:  Don't be doing that.  Whispered aside: I've done 
it when disk space became absolutely critical, and GW keeps on working like a 
trooper.

It's possible the space in OFMSG databases are small messages, but more likely it's 
pointers to stuff in OFFILES.  The only way to reduce OFMSG DBs is to run GWCHECK 
with expiry or deletion options.  Structural checks will remove "empty" records in 
msg.db files too.

--Bob.


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On 25 Nov 2008 at 15:26, Jon Dustin wrote:

>Greetings -
>
>I have an old post office (running on NetWare) with *lots* of history
>that I am trying to clean up. Here is a summary:
>
>- once had about 1200 users, 130GB data
>
>- now has 8 users, 225 resources, but still has 75GB data (recently
>moved the last 400 users to a different post office)
>
>In the "long ago history" (GW6 timeframe) this post office had some
>fairly substantial crashes. I am wondering if I may now have "cruft"
>in the various databases, and am trying to clean things out. Here is
>what I have tried so far:
>
>- reduce/expire anything older than 2004 (we use quotas rather than
>retention periods), not much effect here
>
>- GWCHECK with ATTCLIP (still running, takes about 36 hours to
>complete a contents check over the weekend), not much decrease in disk
>space after about 18 hours
>
>Right now my OFFILES directory is taking up 46GB, and OFMSG 23GB. 
>
>When browsing the OFFILES directories, I can see many files with
>LONG-AGO dates. At this point, could these old files be safely
>deleted? This could save a substantial amount of the 46GB currently in
>use.
>
>I'm not sure how to reclaim space in the OFMSG hierarchy, and would
>appreciate any suggestions you folks could offer. Thank you.
>
>-- 
>
>
>Jon Dustin - Network Specialist
>University of Southern Maine
>Portland, ME  207-780-4152
>
>
>
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