Using Arcserve 2000 on Win2K server; Exchange Agent installed; Client
agents installed on 3 other Win2K servers

After installing SP5, the hard disk has filled up with thousands of
files named rAAAAAxx.chg.  The database cannot be started, so the
backups are now failing.

Questions:

1. These files did not accumulate under SP4 - what are they and why
are they accumulating now?
2. Default pruning job didn't delete these files; have been running
Command Prompt utility software on database for 3 days, so far, with
no way to determine how much longer it has to run to finish.  Can
these files be deleted manually?
3. If SP5 is flawed, how do I roll back to SP4, where these problems
didn't occur?

TIA
Rick

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I had the same problem, and I found an article on google, think I did a
search like "arcserve 2000 database size, or arcserve 2000 database too
big" - something like that.  I basically deleted those files and freed up a
gig of space on my server.  Actually here you go -

http://www.experts-exchange.com/Storage/Q_21048792.html





"Rick C" <rcromi@starklibrary.org> wrote in message
news:611cb06e.0410121528.5bc6b032@posting.google.com...
> Using Arcserve 2000 on Win2K server; Exchange Agent installed; Client
> agents installed on 3 other Win2K servers
>
> After installing SP5, the hard disk has filled up with thousands of
> files named rAAAAAxx.chg.  The database cannot be started, so the
> backups are now failing.
>
> Questions:
>
> 1. These files did not accumulate under SP4 - what are they and why
> are they accumulating now?
> 2. Default pruning job didn't delete these files; have been running
> Command Prompt utility software on database for 3 days, so far, with
> no way to determine how much longer it has to run to finish.  Can
> these files be deleted manually?
> 3. If SP5 is flawed, how do I roll back to SP4, where these problems
> didn't occur?
>
> TIA
> Rick

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