Exchange 2007 VM backup problem...

[coolamasta]

Hi guys,

I need to research this properly but was wondering if anyone knew the answer on here as well

Basically we have our new Exchange 2007 server as a VM and its working well but the Logs keep filling up the drive space causing exchange to fail, I have turned on circular logging to get around this but it means we have no way to restore mail on the fly, IE not good.

The VM is backed up every night using a piece of software called Veeam backup & Replication but I don't know if there is a way we can get Veeam or even VMware to tell the exchange server the backup is complete and to dump its logs just like backup software would?!

Does that make sense? I will get my Google on but if anyone can help it would be much appreciated

 

[coolamasta]

Thanks for the replies fella's its the transaction logs I meant to say sorry, I've not managed to do any research myself at the moment as im away.

Its running on Server 2008 R2 x64 and we are using Veeam 6.2 full paid for version.

Oh and when I say its working well, I mean besides the backup issue haha, we have an 80gb drive for the transaction logs and it takes about 3-4 weeks to fill it up!

I need to work out how I can get Veeam to flush the transaction logs after a successful VM backup I think, would rather that than backup to a separate drive etc

Monday when back in work will check out the Veeam settings and see what I can find and will also look at "Exchange Explorer" as mentioned above (thanks)

Cheers for the help