Unity running out of space

You may wish to investigate Microsoft's Reclaiming Disk Space for the Information Store:

Microsoft XADM: How to Recover Hard Disk Space from Exchange Server Databases:

Microsoft XADM: Offline Defragmentation Does Not Reclaim Space After Changing Deleted Items Retention Setting:

Microsoft how to defragment with the Eseutil utility ( Eseutil.exe ):

Microsoft XADM: How Circular Logging Affects the Use of Transaction Logs:

Microsoft how to turn on or turn off circular logging in Exchange 2000 Server and Exchange Server 2003:

Cisco White Paper: Physical Storage Best Practices for Cisco Unity 4.0 ( With Microsoft Exchange ):

Maintaining Cisco Unity:

Message Store Manager

Found at Cisco Unity Tool Downloads:

As well as the Cisco Unity Maintenance Guide:

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Unity server where the SQL transaction log ( UnityDb_log.LDF ) has grown to over 4.5GB and caused their system to run out of disk space on that partition.

Shrink the transaction log down to a more reasonable size and prevent this kind of problem from happening again:

Open Enterprise Manager, right-click on the database, select properties.

Go to the Options tab and make sure that Simple Recovery is selected for Recovery Models. ( If Full Recovery is selected, then it would not be possible to truncate the file which is the next step ).

Then right-click on the database again and select Shrink Database. On the "Shrink Database" window, Click on FILES button.

Select the transactional log from DATABASE FILE, and select the option TRUNCATE FREE SPACE FROM THE END OF THE FILE on the SHRINK ACTION choices. After shrinking, the Current Size and Space Used should decrease significantly.

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