Exchange Store Defrag

I defragged two of the four information store in my exchange server on Friday night. I started at 10pm and I went to bed at 4:30am Saturday morning.

My four mailbox stores are over 100BG. It's was already over the 100GB partition that I had them on. So months ago I had to more one to the same partition that our public store is on. The plan was to defrag all the stores getting back all the white space and moving the store on the public store partition back with the rest of the mailbox stores. Well that didn't happen.

All the stores are about 25GB and their streaming databases are about 6BG each. So you can see how that is well over 100GB. I did them one at a time. I first did a database move to our recovery storage partition since it's apart of our clusters mount points. This move took 45mins for both the .edb and the .stm databases. Once
moved I ran the

eseutil /d :drive\location\"database name b/c I have spaces"

This took some 3 hours. About 9GB her hours is about right according to MS. When done I mounted the store from the defrag location and did a database move back to the original location. This took another 45mins to copy back. I started the second store at about 3:30am. After that one copied to the defrag location (45min copy) and ran the eseutil and WENT TO BED. I woke up at 6:30ish am and found it was done. I copied it back and that was then of that.

The scheduled downtime was from 10pm Friday night to 10am Saturday morning. So attempting to do the last two stores would have gone well over the time I allotted for maintenance.

What was i doing why I waited for the copy and defrag to finish? While the wife and baby was asleep I took the time to play some WOW ;)