Re: SBS2003 -Limited space, New HD, GHOST

Good Morning,

Thanks for the reply Ms. Clark. The 1st hard drive is One drive with two
partitions. The 2nd drive was added maybe 1 or 2 years ago for extra
storage space, a lot of archived data. Actually I begin to think about what
you said. Since you can only image/ghost 1 hard drive, all I really need is
to get one new hard drive and image/ghost the 1st hard drive with local C &
local D drives. I don't need to do that 2nd hard drive. My main problem is
that there is very little space on my local C and I've almost exhausted all
options freeing up space. We're about to get a new business software and I
don't want space to be the problem for the system drive. So If we get a new
100GB hard drive and image/ghost the 1st hard drive, that should fix the
problem with little space. So please disregard my statement about the 2nd
drive, that's isn't a concern, it's already used primarily for archive
purposes and does not need to be imaged.

With that in mind, what do you recommend for imaging 1 hard drive. Also do I
have to shut down services in order for the Exchange & SQL files to copy to
the new hard drive? Please advise. (I hope I didn't confuse you, smile)

Anthony....

"Anna Clark" <anna.clark(remove this)@verizon.net> wrote in message
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Hi Anthony:

If I understand the meaning of "1st hard drive", that is ONE drive. Not a
good idea. You should have TWO hard drives in a mirror. SBS software
mirror, while disliked by many in this space, is better than no mirror.

So, get two new hard drives. Better, get an add on hardware controller
that
allows mirrors to be created. And get one that has support and will allow
you to add back after a drive failure. Promise is one, Adaptec is
another.
The type and cost depend on the kind of drives you have and or want, and
the
kind of expansion slots available in your server.

In order of preference: SAS, SATA, IDE, aka ata or eide.

Once you have two drives and a mirror solution, then you can use the
software of your choice to move the existing install of SBS and all your
data folders to the new drive/partitions.

BTW, most would advise 4 drives, 2 mirrors, 2 for Windows, 2 for data, and
the debate about how many drives it really takes to support SBS, like
Sonny
and Cher, goes on.

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Regards:

Anna Clark
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to your issue so that others may benefit.



"Anthony Smith" <anthony@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Good Morning,

Happy New Year to everyone! We've been running SBS2003 for a while now
and
we are running out of space on the system C drive. It has 2 hard drives
in
it.
The 1st hard drive has two partitions: C - 4GB and approx. 896MB free,
D -
12.4GB and approx. 4GB free
The 2nd hard drive has one partition: F - 33.9GB and approx. 12.8GB

We've got two processors in it so I don't think we really need to get a
new
server. We're just running out of space. I am considering purchasing a
new
hard drive with at least 100GB of storage, maybe more.

If we get a very large hard drive, I'm thinking we could have 3
partitions
with approx. 33GB each. That should be plenty of space for the System
Drive
C. I then could get Norton Ghost and transfer data from each partition
over. The problem is, I don't know how to do this. I'm not experienced
with
this and this is our only server so I don't want to make a mistake. Can
someone tell me if I am going about this the right way? Any problems with
using Ghost on a SBS2003 server? I found out about it from a friend that
had some company do it for him for a new PC he got for home. They just
ghosted his old hard drive and put it into the new machine. I'm not sure
if
it is that easy with a server that has 2 hard drives in it.

Please advise, thanks!

Anthony Smith
In God We Trust!






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