I have Exchange 2010 running off a virtual machine hosted on Win2k8-R2 
Hyperv. VHD file size was set to 127GB.

A couple of days ago, external mailflow stopped working. We identified that 
the diskspace was running low 5GB free only and that the transaction logs 
were taking up approximately 55GB of diskspace.

I initiated a Windows backup, but the conisitency check showing in progress 
for over 6 hours. It was probably stuck due to no diskspace but oddly enough 
no error message.

I killed the backup at that point. Expanded the HD drive space from HyperV 
to 175GB, restarted the Exchange 2010 VM and initiated the backup again to 
clear up the transaction logs.

It seems that the backup utility cannot get past the consistency check. It 
just keeps going and going. Any idea if there a log I can check to see what 
is going on?

:(

Wow so no one check this server to see if backups are being done or not 
properly (-: you said they were taking up approximately 55GB of disk space, 
this cannot be generated in one day (-:

Anyways  I been into similar situations you are luck to expand the drive. 
Just enable circular logging and purge all the logs , disable CL when all 
logs are gone and perform backup. Don’t forget to check backups regularly 
after this to make sure they are running properly (-:

best
ocd



"Alienix" <Alienix@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
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> I have Exchange 2010 running off a virtual machine hosted on Win2k8-R2
> Hyperv. VHD file size was set to 127GB.
>
> A couple of days ago, external mailflow stopped working. We identified 
> that
> the diskspace was running low 5GB free only and that the transaction logs
> were taking up approximately 55GB of diskspace.
>
> I initiated a Windows backup, but the conisitency check showing in 
> progress
> for over 6 hours. It was probably stuck due to no diskspace but oddly 
> enough
> no error message.
>
> I killed the backup at that point. Expanded the HD drive space from HyperV
> to 175GB, restarted the Exchange 2010 VM and initiated the backup again to
> clear up the transaction logs.
>
> It seems that the backup utility cannot get past the consistency check. It
> just keeps going and going. Any idea if there a log I can check to see 
> what
> is going on?
>
> :(
>