Who Ate All The Disk Space? (Yeah, It Was BizTalk)
This post is for newbie BizTalk users who have installed their environment using the Next, Next, Finish approach. Today you have your shiny new development sandbox* with a nice chunk of disk space. Tomorrow you will have slightly less disk space. Next week a little less still. In a month, no disk space. This will be a bad place to be. There are a number of things that eat up disk space in the world of BizTalk: BizTalk uses a number of SQL Server databases at its heart. These databases are NOT backed up by default and you should NOT use database maintenance plans or third party backup software to back them up. You'll see why in a minute. BizTalk normally reads messages, processes them, delivers them and then deletes them. It keeps the databases surprisingly small. However if your BizTalk solutions have issues the messages will be "Suspended" which means "saved to the database until the problem is fixed". At this point your database is now growing. BizTalk...