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Exchange 2003 Not Truncating Logs

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Hello All

I'm new to Veeam and this is my first time using it.
We have a Standalone Windows 2008 R2 Hyper-V platform and running Exchange 2003 SP2 on a guest VM with Veeam 7.

I have setup a backup job in Veeam to truncate logs after a successful backup, the backup is successful but the logs don't truncate. I have ran the job 3 times now with no luck.

I have also used 'Truncate logs always' and this 'Does' trunacate them so Veeam is initiating the request.

There are no related errors in the Event log on the Exchange server.

Is there anyway i can troubleshoot this issue, any help is appreciated??

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Re: Exchange 2003 Not Truncating Logs

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Hi, Kamran.

So, you’re saying that Exchange logs are truncated in case of “Always” option, meanwhile, they are not in case of “After successful” one, right? Also, what is the state of VSS writers (in order to check it, kindly, run the following command):

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vssadmin list writers 
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Re: Exchange 2003 Not Truncating Logs

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This is the output, it looks like there are 9 failures in the Excahnger Writer

H:\>vssadmin list writers
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Writer name: 'System Writer'
Writer Id: {e8132975-6f93-4464-a53e-1050253ae220}
Writer Instance Id: {eb421fc8-0d85-4f16-a6cd-040fb25de556}
State: [5] Waiting for completion
Last error: No error

Writer name: 'MSDEWriter'
Writer Id: {f8544ac1-0611-4fa5-b04b-f7ee00b03277}
Writer Instance Id: {c9907d4e-e2e2-46e5-a8e0-a0ecfb7946f0}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error

Writer name: 'COM+ REGDB Writer'
Writer Id: {542da469-d3e1-473c-9f4f-7847f01fc64f}
Writer Instance Id: {96cfaec5-847e-46db-a590-9da8b0484a46}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error

Writer name: 'Event Log Writer'
Writer Id: {eee8c692-67ed-4250-8d86-390603070d00}
Writer Instance Id: {358113fb-a9f7-4023-bd0b-034c25e88d66}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error

Writer name: 'Registry Writer'
Writer Id: {afbab4a2-367d-4d15-a566-71dbb18f8485}
Writer Instance Id: {8038958b-0ef5-6f45-93a7-65e059afd264}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error

Writer name: 'Microsoft Exchange Writer'
Writer Id: {76fe1ac4-15f7-4bcd-987e-8e1acb462fb7}
Writer Instance Id: {5d465eae-e525-4b18-44f4-aebf27b2655e}
State: [9] Failed
Last error: Retryable error

Writer name: 'IIS Metabase Writer'
Writer Id: {59b1f0cf-90ef-465f-9609-6ca8b2938366}
Writer Instance Id: {fc0c3ec8-0874-4e11-8d75-97627ef784e3}
State: [5] Waiting for completion
Last error: No error

Writer name: 'WMI Writer'
Writer Id: {a6ad56c2-b508-4e6c-bb19-49d8f43532f0}
Writer Instance Id: {0d4d8cd7-3f2e-4290-8928-308ffba5934c}
State: [5] Waiting for completion
Last error: No error
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Re: Exchange 2003 Not Truncating Logs

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Yep, it’s the root cause of the said issue. You have to ensure that there are no “Exchange writer” errors in order to truncate logs successfully. In case of retryable errors, you might want to restart the corresponding service or the server as a whole and see whether this error gets back or not.

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Re: Exchange 2003 Not Truncating Logs

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v.Eremin wrote:Yep, it’s the root cause of the said issue. You have to ensure that there are no “Exchange writer” errors in order to truncate logs successfully. In case retryable of errors, you might want to restart the corresponding service or the server as a whole and see whether this error gets back or not.

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I will reboot this evening and report back. Thanks for your help.
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Re: Exchange 2003 Not Truncating Logs

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rebooting cleared the error and we had a successful backup with truncated logs last night.

Thank you for your help, appreciated.
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Re: Exchange 2003 Not Truncating Logs

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You’re welcome. Should any other questions arise, don’t hesitate to contact us. Thanks.
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