Re: Adding Addtional Drives for Exchange Database

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Hi,

You are correct.

Your plan should work.

Leif

"Eric" <Eric@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> skrev i en meddelelse
news:C44B8D7D-7DC3-46AC-BED7-A0248BEC2567@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> We are currently running low on space on our database drive array. I
> formulated a plan that would allow me to upgrade to larger disks. I would
> like to see if it is a feasible plan and also determine if there may be
> issues regarding this plan. The details are below:
>
> We are running an Exchange 2000 server on a server with 6 internal drive
> bays, these drive bays are all used and I need to upgrade the disk set
that
> my Exchange database uses. My plan is to shutdown and disable all Exchange
> services, then run an offline backup of the database using NTBackup,
moving
> the backup file off to an external USB hard disk. After the backup
completed
> I plan on removing the disk set that is currently installed and install
two
> larger drives, recreate the mirror and assign the same drive letter. Next
my
> plan is to restore the previous back to the newly created disk pair and
then
> start the services.
>
> I have read Article 296788, it mentions backing up the log files also.
> Those currently sit on a different drive set, my question is whether
backing
> up the log files would be necessary. The exchange services will be
shutdown
> and not be restarted until after the installation of the new drives and
the
> restore completes. I would assume that the databases and log files do not
> care if new drives were installed. Please correct me if I am wrong.
>


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