Re: Adding more disk space to SBS 2003

Thanks.

Can I have 2 different mirrored sets on two differrent drive types (IDE and
SATA)?

What do you think of Storagecraft Shadowprotect?

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"Cris Hanna [SBS-MVP]" wrote:

Lots of folks seem to be reporting good results with Acronis...have not had
to do use it myself

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"JimA" <JimA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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So use Ghost or other product to image the old drive to the new drive,
then
mirror.
Any product recommendations? Can I image between different drive types?
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"Cris Hanna [SBS-MVP]" wrote:

You cannot mirror ide and sata

To mirror the drives must be identical size and type.

You would be much better off with disk imaging...image the old drive to
the
new one, then create the new mirror

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"JimA" <JimA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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My server currently has a mirrored set of 60 GB drives (IDE) that
contain
the
C and D drives (system and data). Disk 0 is okay at 14 Gb free but my
data
drive is only 11Gb free and growing because my Exchange store, SBS and
other
extreaneous data is stored here. I would like to run my plan plan by
the
forum and get any thoughts and/or ideas. The plan is:

1. Break the mirror on the current set and move the mirror to the new
drive.
!! Can I mirror an IDE and SATA - I don't think I can -
2. After new mirror complete move the mirror to the new same size drive
to

increase capacity.
3. Break the mirror again and remove the old drive.
4. Restore the mirror to the new drive and that give me complete new
mirror
set.
5. The new mirror set will include C and D drives and simply be a
larger
example of what existed before.
6. Leave the old drives available but unplugged in the server.
7. Test thoroughly and cutover after about a week.
8. After all okay - reformat both old 60 GB drives, assign new drive
letters
(automatic?) and have 60GB (x2) available for the paging file, old .pst
fiels
and misc large data files. What is best way to go about reformating
these
drives to make them available for use?
9. I am considering mirroring these 2 drives for redundancy.

I currently have IDE and considering SATA (have onboard ctlr but have
read
some bad things).

Any thoughts would be welcome.

Thanks

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Jim A.



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