Abnormal System file exchange server database drive under System volume infromation folder

Question

Need help with the following issue.

In our exchange server one of the database drive, we are seeing abnormal system file which is increasing rapidly. The current size is 171GB+, and we try to rename but no luck. can we remove it.

Any Idea?

Details in below screenshot.

Thank You
Nur

Answer 1

Hi,

Please chekc if you have enabled Volume Shadow Copy on the drive and set no limit on the shadow copies. If so, each new VSS snapshot is stored in System Volume Information folder. The more often the shadow copies are created and data on the disk are changed, the faster the size of this folder grows.

If you want to remove the files inside the folder, you can disable the Volume Shadow Copies. If you want keep the VSS, you may set the limit the volume shadow copy in size.

Steps:
Right click the drive > Select Configure Shadow Copies > Disable or click Settings > Check Use limit and set the maximun size

If you haven't enabled Volume Shadow copy, please check if you installed third-party Symantec backup software. It will create temporary files in the System Volume Information folder, which cause System Volume Information folder is growing and may take up the available disk space.

Below thread might help you:
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/647d350f-f3a0-487d-b885-f2eaa3f029f0/windows-2008-r2-system-volume-information-too-large

Thanks,

Eleven

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Answer 2

Those look like DPM files, not related to Exchange.
I would ask in the DPM forums:
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/home?category=dpm