SharePoint_Config_Log file size

Been doing a routine check of my servers, and noticed that our SharePoint server was lacking some free space. A little unusual, given our SharePoint installation is quite small. And although this server also acts as a Streaming Media server using Windows Media Services, I didn’t think that we had that much streaming media.

Turns out that the SharePoint_Config_Log file size was 78gb. This is around 80% of the drive that it is stored on. This meant that we had only 6gb remaining.

In this situation a full backup was not possible to truncate the logs. Symantec Backup Exec was still backing up the databases every night though. To cure this problem, a quick little fix:

1. Open up Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio
2. New Query
3. Type in the following and press execute.

USE [master]

GO

ALTER DATABASE[SharePoint_Config] SET RECOVERY SIMPLE WITH NO_WAIT

GO

USE [SharePoint_Config] 

GO

DBCC SHRINKFILE ('SharePoint_Config_Log')

GO

Database size magically down from 78gb to 10mb.

Server is now happy, and running better.